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AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
Gemini Omni — Google Just Killed the Re-Prompt: Generate a Video, Then Keep Editing It by Talking
For three years, AI video has meant one shot at a time: type a prompt, hold your…
Project Eden — Tripo Just Banked $200M and Built a World Model That Remembers What You Did After You Walk Away
VAST AI Research, the lab behind Tripo, just revealed Project Eden — a persistent, editable, multiplayer world model that puts state before pixels — and raised nearly $200M to back it.
AniGen — The Tripo Team Just Solved AI 3D’s Dead-Statue Problem: One Photo In, a Fully Rigged Character Out
Every AI 3D generator on the planet hands you a beautiful, dead statue. Mesh? Gorgeous. Textures? 4K….
Aholo Viewer — Manycore Just Open-Sourced a Browser Renderer That Streams a Billion Splats, No Install
The Hook A billion Gaussian splats. Streaming. In a browser tab. On your phone. With no install,…
MoZoo — A Diffusion Model Just Did Fur and Muscle Sim From a Coarse Mesh, and It Works for Kibble
Animal fur and muscle have always been the wall every CG studio hits. A believable tiger means…
Rodin Gen-2.5 — The First 10-Million-Polygon AI 3D Model, and Its Best Trick Isn’t the Geometry
Rodin’s pitch in one image: production-ready 3D from a prompt or a photo. Source: Hyper3D Hook On…
Project Genie Just Grounded Its Dream Worlds in Real Streets — Pin a Place on the Map, Walk Into Your Own Version of It
Two months ago we wrote that Genie 3 had turned text into interactive 3D worlds. Google just…
HiDream-O1-Image — The 8B Open Model That Reasons Before It Draws (and Beats FLUX.2 at a Quarter the Size)
Every few months an open model shows up and quietly embarrasses something four times its size. This…
Pixal3D — Tencent’s SIGGRAPH 2026 Model Stops Guessing and Nails Every Pixel to Your 3D Mesh
IK3D Lab Take The race in AI 3D has quietly split in two. One track chases scale…
Reallusion AI Studio — The Bet That 3D Artists Directing AI Will Beat Anyone Typing Prompts
For three years the AI video pitch has been the same: type a sentence, get a clip….