IA Lab

AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.

0 142 0 Comment on Qwen-Image-Edit Just Made Character Consistency Free — And Handed 3D Artists the Missing First Step to Image-to-3D
Qwen-Image-Edit Just Made Character Consistency Free — And Handed 3D Artists the Missing First Step to Image-to-3D Qwen-Image-Edit Just Made Character Consistency Free — And Handed 3D Artists the Missing First Step to Image-to-3D Qwen-Image-Edit Just Made Character Consistency Free — And Handed 3D Artists the Missing First Step to Image-to-3D Qwen-Image-Edit Just Made Character Consistency Free — And Handed 3D Artists the Missing First Step to Image-to-3D

Qwen-Image-Edit Just Made Character Consistency Free — And Handed 3D Artists the Missing First Step to Image-to-3D

For years, the single hardest problem in AI character art wasn’t making a pretty image — it…

Issanou 8 July 2026
0 128 0 Comment on VLM3 — Meta Just Argued You Don’t Need a Special 3D Model: A Plain 4B Chat Model Learns Depth, Correspondence and Camera Pose Natively
VLM3 — Meta Just Argued You Don’t Need a Special 3D Model: A Plain 4B Chat Model Learns Depth, Correspondence and Camera Pose Natively VLM3 — Meta Just Argued You Don’t Need a Special 3D Model: A Plain 4B Chat Model Learns Depth, Correspondence and Camera Pose Natively VLM3 — Meta Just Argued You Don’t Need a Special 3D Model: A Plain 4B Chat Model Learns Depth, Correspondence and Camera Pose Natively VLM3 — Meta Just Argued You Don’t Need a Special 3D Model: A Plain 4B Chat Model Learns Depth, Correspondence and Camera Pose Natively

VLM3 — Meta Just Argued You Don’t Need a Special 3D Model: A Plain 4B Chat Model Learns Depth, Correspondence and Camera Pose Natively

Hook For two years the whole 3D-AI industry has been building bigger, weirder, more specialized machines —…

Issanou 6 July 2026
0 123 0 Comment on GSOPs — Gaussian Splats Just Walked On Stage: Lake Heckaman Made TouchDesigner Dissolve, Relight and Audio-React Real Captures in Real Time
GSOPs — Gaussian Splats Just Walked On Stage: Lake Heckaman Made TouchDesigner Dissolve, Relight and Audio-React Real Captures in Real Time GSOPs — Gaussian Splats Just Walked On Stage: Lake Heckaman Made TouchDesigner Dissolve, Relight and Audio-React Real Captures in Real Time GSOPs — Gaussian Splats Just Walked On Stage: Lake Heckaman Made TouchDesigner Dissolve, Relight and Audio-React Real Captures in Real Time GSOPs — Gaussian Splats Just Walked On Stage: Lake Heckaman Made TouchDesigner Dissolve, Relight and Audio-React Real Captures in Real Time

GSOPs — Gaussian Splats Just Walked On Stage: Lake Heckaman Made TouchDesigner Dissolve, Relight and Audio-React Real Captures in Real Time

Hook For three years we’ve watched Gaussian splats colonize every offline tool on Earth — Blender, Cinema…

Issanou 4 July 2026
0 92 0 Comment on Marble Just Opened Its Doors — Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Will Now Speak Any Place Into Existence and Hand You the Splats
Marble Just Opened Its Doors — Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Will Now Speak Any Place Into Existence and Hand You the Splats Marble Just Opened Its Doors — Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Will Now Speak Any Place Into Existence and Hand You the Splats Marble Just Opened Its Doors — Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Will Now Speak Any Place Into Existence and Hand You the Splats Marble Just Opened Its Doors — Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Will Now Speak Any Place Into Existence and Hand You the Splats

Marble Just Opened Its Doors — Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Will Now Speak Any Place Into Existence and Hand You the Splats

For two years we’ve covered every world model that dared to challenge it — Genie, Lyra, HunyuanWorld,…

Issanou 2 July 2026
0 86 0 Comment on Microsoft Lens — A 3.8B Image Model That Beats FLUX on a Fifth of the Compute, Because It Read Better Captions
Microsoft Lens — A 3.8B Image Model That Beats FLUX on a Fifth of the Compute, Because It Read Better Captions Microsoft Lens — A 3.8B Image Model That Beats FLUX on a Fifth of the Compute, Because It Read Better Captions Microsoft Lens — A 3.8B Image Model That Beats FLUX on a Fifth of the Compute, Because It Read Better Captions Microsoft Lens — A 3.8B Image Model That Beats FLUX on a Fifth of the Compute, Because It Read Better Captions

Microsoft Lens — A 3.8B Image Model That Beats FLUX on a Fifth of the Compute, Because It Read Better Captions

Everyone in image-gen has been chasing the same dragon: more parameters, more GPUs, more compute. Microsoft Research…

Issanou 2 July 2026
0 71 0 Comment on 404—GEN — A Swarm of Competing Miners Will Build Your Gaussian Splat From a Text Prompt, and Drop It Into Unity for Free
404—GEN — A Swarm of Competing Miners Will Build Your Gaussian Splat From a Text Prompt, and Drop It Into Unity for Free 404—GEN — A Swarm of Competing Miners Will Build Your Gaussian Splat From a Text Prompt, and Drop It Into Unity for Free 404—GEN — A Swarm of Competing Miners Will Build Your Gaussian Splat From a Text Prompt, and Drop It Into Unity for Free 404—GEN — A Swarm of Competing Miners Will Build Your Gaussian Splat From a Text Prompt, and Drop It Into Unity for Free

404—GEN — A Swarm of Competing Miners Will Build Your Gaussian Splat From a Text Prompt, and Drop It Into Unity for Free

Type “a cyberpunk Shiba Inu bartender, neon visor, mixing drinks,” wait roughly ten seconds, and a textured,…

Issanou 1 July 2026
0 71 0 Comment on LTX Trainer — Lightricks Just Turned 13 Ways to Train a Video Model Into One YAML File, and Handed the Keyboard to Claude Code
LTX Trainer — Lightricks Just Turned 13 Ways to Train a Video Model Into One YAML File, and Handed the Keyboard to Claude Code LTX Trainer — Lightricks Just Turned 13 Ways to Train a Video Model Into One YAML File, and Handed the Keyboard to Claude Code LTX Trainer — Lightricks Just Turned 13 Ways to Train a Video Model Into One YAML File, and Handed the Keyboard to Claude Code LTX Trainer — Lightricks Just Turned 13 Ways to Train a Video Model Into One YAML File, and Handed the Keyboard to Claude Code

LTX Trainer — Lightricks Just Turned 13 Ways to Train a Video Model Into One YAML File, and Handed the Keyboard to Claude Code

For two years the deal with AI video has been simple and a little insulting: you get…

Issanou 1 July 2026
0 75 0 Comment on COLMAP 4.1 — The Unsung Engine Behind Every Splat You’ve Ever Made Just Got a 100x GPU Heart Transplant
COLMAP 4.1 — The Unsung Engine Behind Every Splat You’ve Ever Made Just Got a 100x GPU Heart Transplant COLMAP 4.1 — The Unsung Engine Behind Every Splat You’ve Ever Made Just Got a 100x GPU Heart Transplant COLMAP 4.1 — The Unsung Engine Behind Every Splat You’ve Ever Made Just Got a 100x GPU Heart Transplant COLMAP 4.1 — The Unsung Engine Behind Every Splat You’ve Ever Made Just Got a 100x GPU Heart Transplant

COLMAP 4.1 — The Unsung Engine Behind Every Splat You’ve Ever Made Just Got a 100x GPU Heart Transplant

Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the Gaussian splatting boom: before any of the flashy tools we cover…

Issanou 1 July 2026
0 100 0 Comment on PixelDiT — NVIDIA Just Killed the VAE: A Best-Paper Image Model That Generates Straight Onto Pixels
PixelDiT — NVIDIA Just Killed the VAE: A Best-Paper Image Model That Generates Straight Onto Pixels PixelDiT — NVIDIA Just Killed the VAE: A Best-Paper Image Model That Generates Straight Onto Pixels PixelDiT — NVIDIA Just Killed the VAE: A Best-Paper Image Model That Generates Straight Onto Pixels PixelDiT — NVIDIA Just Killed the VAE: A Best-Paper Image Model That Generates Straight Onto Pixels

PixelDiT — NVIDIA Just Killed the VAE: A Best-Paper Image Model That Generates Straight Onto Pixels

Every image model you have ever used — Stable Diffusion, FLUX, the lot — cheats. It does…

Issanou 29 June 2026
0 92 0 Comment on General Intuition — The Lab Betting That 2 Billion Game Clips Are How AI Finally Learns to Move
General Intuition — The Lab Betting That 2 Billion Game Clips Are How AI Finally Learns to Move General Intuition — The Lab Betting That 2 Billion Game Clips Are How AI Finally Learns to Move General Intuition — The Lab Betting That 2 Billion Game Clips Are How AI Finally Learns to Move General Intuition — The Lab Betting That 2 Billion Game Clips Are How AI Finally Learns to Move

General Intuition — The Lab Betting That 2 Billion Game Clips Are How AI Finally Learns to Move

While everyone else is racing to generate prettier worlds, a New York lab is quietly betting that…

Issanou 29 June 2026