IA Lab
AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
DreamX-Creator 1.0 — Alibaba’s Maps Team Just Open-Sourced a Video Model That Generates the Sound and the Picture as One Thing (Apache 2.0, 2K)
Hook A maps company just open-sourced one of the most interesting video models of the year. It…
Wan-Animate-2 — Alibaba Open-Sourced the Skeleton-Free Model That Makes Your Still Character Act, in Real Time (and Beats the Paid Ones)
Alibaba just open-sourced the animation tool a lot of us have been faking with duct tape. Wan-Animate-2…
LTX-2.5 — Lightricks Just Open-Weighted the AI Video Model You Can Actually Run: Native Multishot, 4K HDR, and the Same Character Across the Cut
Hook The same week the AI world lost its mind over MiniMax H3, a quieter release did…
WorldClaw — Tencent Sent a Crew of AI Agents to Build a Whole Open World From One Sentence, and Handed You Every Asset to Edit
Type a sentence. Get a whole world back — a coastline, a volcano, a mining town —…
ComfyUI Just Handed the Keys to Claude — Comfy MCP on Local Lets an Agent Build and Run Workflows on Your Own GPU
The Hook On August 18, the ComfyUI team open-sourced Comfy MCP on Local. In plain terms: you…
Revit 2027 Just Put an AI Agent Inside the World’s BIM Standard — And Wired It for MCP, So Claude Can Read Your Live Building Model
Autodesk just did the thing everyone in the AI-3D world has been waiting for someone big to…
Fei-Fei Li’s Marble Just Walked Onto a CBS True-Crime Set — Promise Turned Old Crime-Scene Photos Into Filmable 3D Worlds, and Kept a Receipt for Every Prompt
For a year we have watched AI world models spin up dreamy 3D spaces you can fly…
TRELLIS.2 — Microsoft Just Rebuilt Image-to-3D Around One New Idea: A Voxel That Stores Shape and Surface Together, at 1536³, in Seconds
Microsoft Research just dropped TRELLIS.2, and it quietly moves the goalposts for image-to-3D. Feed it one picture…
Insta360 Just Put Gaussian Splat Capture in Your Pocket — The X6 Turns a $699 Camera Into a One-Loop Radiance-Field Scanner (Powered by the KIRI Engine Team)
The rig that turns a real place into a 3D Gaussian splat just shrank to the size…
Meshy T2 — The AI That Finally Gives You a Mesh You’d Open in Blender: Artist Topology From One Image in 6 Seconds
Every AI 3D tool can hand you a shape. Almost none can hand you a shape you’d…