IA Lab
AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
Chaos Just Unbaked the Lighting From Gaussian Splats — Relight a Real-World Capture in Real Time
Every Gaussian splat the Lab has ever covered shared one dirty secret: the lighting was welded on….
SCAIL-2 — Z.ai Just Open-Sourced Character Animation That Throws Away the Skeleton
For two years, the dirty secret of AI character animation was the middleman. To make a still…
Bernini — ByteDance Just Open-Sourced a Video Editor That Reasons Out the Edit Before It Touches a Single Pixel
The Hook Most AI video editors paint first and think never — you ask for one change…
Ideogram 4.0 — The Typography King Just Went Open-Weight, and It Was Trained on JSON, Not Captions
Hook The model that quietly became the best in the world at putting readable text inside an…
ComfyUI Just Made Gaussian Splats a Native Data Type — Generate, Render and Mesh Them Without Ever Leaving the Graph
For two years, working with Gaussian splats inside ComfyUI meant the same ritual: a custom node pack,…
Apple Maps Just Went Gaussian — WWDC 2026 Shipped 3DGS to a Billion iPhones (and Never Said the Word)
Hook For two years this Lab has chronicled Gaussian Splatting clawing its way out of research papers…
TripoSplat — The Tripo Team Just Open-Sourced the First AI That GENERATES Gaussian Splats From One Image (Not Captures Them)
For two years, the Lab has told two parallel stories. One: AI that generates 3D from a…
Krea 2 — The App Everyone Riffed On Just Built Its Own Foundation Model, and It’s Engineered to Look Imperfect
The Hook For two years, Krea was the tab you opened to riff on top of somebody…
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 — The Open Omnimodel That Reasons Before It Generates a World, and It’s Yours to Download
On May 31 at GTC Taipei, NVIDIA dropped Cosmos 3 and slapped a wild label on it:…
NeRF Just Won Computing’s Top Early-Career Prize — and Almost Every 3D Tool the Lab Covers Traces Back to These Two Researchers
Ben Mildenhall and Pratul Srinivasan just won the 2025 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for NeRF — the 2020 idea that quietly became the foundation under Gaussian splatting, text-to-3D, and AI world models.