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0 1 0 Comment on Tripo’s Makers Just Won SIGGRAPH Best in Show — A Room Full of Strangers Texted Photos and Watched Them Become Rigged, Animated 3D Characters in Seconds
Tripo’s Makers Just Won SIGGRAPH Best in Show — A Room Full of Strangers Texted Photos and Watched Them Become Rigged, Animated 3D Characters in Seconds Tripo’s Makers Just Won SIGGRAPH Best in Show — A Room Full of Strangers Texted Photos and Watched Them Become Rigged, Animated 3D Characters in Seconds Tripo’s Makers Just Won SIGGRAPH Best in Show — A Room Full of Strangers Texted Photos and Watched Them Become Rigged, Animated 3D Characters in Seconds Tripo’s Makers Just Won SIGGRAPH Best in Show — A Room Full of Strangers Texted Photos and Watched Them Become Rigged, Animated 3D Characters in Seconds

Tripo’s Makers Just Won SIGGRAPH Best in Show — A Room Full of Strangers Texted Photos and Watched Them Become Rigged, Animated 3D Characters in Seconds

At SIGGRAPH 2026’s Real-Time Live!, the audience became the demo. People pulled out their phones, sent in…

Issanou 7 August 2026
0 3 0 Comment on Mage-Flow — Microsoft Just Shipped a 4B Image Model That Generates AND Edits at Native Resolution, Beats a 20B Rival, and It’s MIT-Licensed
Mage-Flow — Microsoft Just Shipped a 4B Image Model That Generates AND Edits at Native Resolution, Beats a 20B Rival, and It’s MIT-Licensed Mage-Flow — Microsoft Just Shipped a 4B Image Model That Generates AND Edits at Native Resolution, Beats a 20B Rival, and It’s MIT-Licensed Mage-Flow — Microsoft Just Shipped a 4B Image Model That Generates AND Edits at Native Resolution, Beats a 20B Rival, and It’s MIT-Licensed Mage-Flow — Microsoft Just Shipped a 4B Image Model That Generates AND Edits at Native Resolution, Beats a 20B Rival, and It’s MIT-Licensed

Mage-Flow — Microsoft Just Shipped a 4B Image Model That Generates AND Edits at Native Resolution, Beats a 20B Rival, and It’s MIT-Licensed

Microsoft just dropped a text-to-image and image-editing model that fits on a single GPU, generates a 1024px…

Issanou 6 August 2026
0 6 0 Comment on OmniFaceRig — Meta Just Automated the One Job AI 3D Kept Skipping: Giving Your Character a Face That Can Actually Talk
OmniFaceRig — Meta Just Automated the One Job AI 3D Kept Skipping: Giving Your Character a Face That Can Actually Talk OmniFaceRig — Meta Just Automated the One Job AI 3D Kept Skipping: Giving Your Character a Face That Can Actually Talk OmniFaceRig — Meta Just Automated the One Job AI 3D Kept Skipping: Giving Your Character a Face That Can Actually Talk OmniFaceRig — Meta Just Automated the One Job AI 3D Kept Skipping: Giving Your Character a Face That Can Actually Talk

OmniFaceRig — Meta Just Automated the One Job AI 3D Kept Skipping: Giving Your Character a Face That Can Actually Talk

Every AI 3D pipeline has a dirty little secret. It hands you a gorgeous mesh with no…

Issanou 4 August 2026
0 8 0 Comment on PixWorld — One Model That Both Reconstructs a Real Place and Dreams Up a New One, in 0.6 Seconds, With No VAE in Sight
PixWorld — One Model That Both Reconstructs a Real Place and Dreams Up a New One, in 0.6 Seconds, With No VAE in Sight PixWorld — One Model That Both Reconstructs a Real Place and Dreams Up a New One, in 0.6 Seconds, With No VAE in Sight PixWorld — One Model That Both Reconstructs a Real Place and Dreams Up a New One, in 0.6 Seconds, With No VAE in Sight PixWorld — One Model That Both Reconstructs a Real Place and Dreams Up a New One, in 0.6 Seconds, With No VAE in Sight

PixWorld — One Model That Both Reconstructs a Real Place and Dreams Up a New One, in 0.6 Seconds, With No VAE in Sight

For two years the AI 3D world has quietly split into two tribes: the reconstruction people who…

Issanou 4 August 2026
0 10 0 Comment on FLUX 3 — The Lab Behind Half of ComfyUI Just Quit Image Models: One Backbone for Video, Sound, and a Robot Arm
FLUX 3 — The Lab Behind Half of ComfyUI Just Quit Image Models: One Backbone for Video, Sound, and a Robot Arm FLUX 3 — The Lab Behind Half of ComfyUI Just Quit Image Models: One Backbone for Video, Sound, and a Robot Arm FLUX 3 — The Lab Behind Half of ComfyUI Just Quit Image Models: One Backbone for Video, Sound, and a Robot Arm FLUX 3 — The Lab Behind Half of ComfyUI Just Quit Image Models: One Backbone for Video, Sound, and a Robot Arm

FLUX 3 — The Lab Behind Half of ComfyUI Just Quit Image Models: One Backbone for Video, Sound, and a Robot Arm

The lab that gave the open-source world FLUX.1 and FLUX.2 just stopped making image models. On July…

Issanou 4 August 2026
0 10 0 Comment on AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up)
AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up) AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up) AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up) AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up)

AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up)

Most “world models” hand you a place and let you look around. AlayaWorld hands you a controller….

Issanou 1 August 2026
0 11 0 Comment on Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It)
Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It) Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It) Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It) Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It)

Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It)

Feed it one photo of a person and a music track. Get back a full minute of…

Issanou 1 August 2026
0 16 0 Comment on MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond
MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond

MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond

Every 3D artist who has run an AI generator has met the same monster: you type a…

Issanou 29 July 2026
0 19 0 Comment on Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth
Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth

Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth

One person, a weekend, and an MIT licence just did something Foundry, Autodesk and every VFX vendor…

Issanou 29 July 2026
0 18 0 Comment on Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same
Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same

Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same

Two months ago the Blender Foundation drew a line in the sand: no generative AI in the…

Issanou 27 July 2026