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AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
Cesium Just Made Gaussian Splats Industrial — 110 Million Splats Streamed Like Map Tiles, To Any Browser
For two years Gaussian Splatting has been the coolest party trick in 3D — photoreal captures that…
Reallusion Headshot 3 — Type a Prompt, Get a Production-Grade Digital Double in Character Creator 5
Yesterday, April 28, 2026, Reallusion shipped Headshot 3 for Character Creator 5 — and quietly delivered the…
Project ETERNAL — Antigravity, CyArk and Splatica Just Turned Pompeii Into a Gaussian Splat (And They Want You to Splat the World)
A 249-gram drone flies invisibly above the ruins of Pompeii, capturing 8K 360° footage of every fresco,…
NVIDIA AI Blueprint × Microsoft TRELLIS — Type a Scene, Get 20 Game-Ready Assets in Blender
Type “cyberpunk night market.” Wait two minutes. Get twenty production-ready 3D assets, sorted, named, and dropped straight…
ByteDance Seed3D 2.0 — The First AI 3D Model That Stopped Pretending Edges Are Round
ByteDance just dropped Seed3D 2.0 — coarse-to-fine DiT, unified PBR with a VLM, 80%+ human-preference win on geometry. The first AI 3D model that takes sharp edges and physical materials seriously.
Autodesk Forma Building Design — Neural CAD Just Landed and It Wants to Automate 80% of Architecture
Autodesk just dropped the biggest AI bet in its 40-year history. Forma Building Design launched April 7,…
ChatGPT Images 2.0 — The First AI That Thinks Before It Draws
Most image generators guess. They take your prompt, roll the statistical dice, and hand you whatever comes…
NVIDIA Lyra 2.0 — Give It One Photo, It Gives You an Infinite Explorable 3D World
NVIDIA’s Spatial Intelligence Lab just dropped Lyra 2.0 — open source, published April 2026 — and it…
Tripo AI H3.1 — Native 3D Diffusion Just Made Film-Grade Assets in 2 Seconds
One month ago, Tripo gave us Smart Mesh P1.0 — the fastest game-ready low-poly generator around. Now…
HappyHorse 1.0 — Alibaba’s Anonymous #1 Video Model Is Open Source and It Just Beat Everyone
On April 7, 2026, a model with no readme, no team page, and zero launch hype appeared…