World Labs lands $1B, with $200M from Autodesk, to bring world models into 3D workflows

The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.
Gigwise

Tripo Studio: A Practical Look at AI-Driven 3D Creation Workflows

The expansion of 3D content across games, digital media, education, and product design has exposed a long-standing challenge: ...
Auganix

Waymo Launches Generative 3D World Model to Train Self-Driving Cars

Waymo has introduced its Waymo World Model for generating multimodal 3D simulations for autonomous vehicle training | XR News ...
Ars Technica

New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, allowing users to pilot a camera path to “explore” ...