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a16z-backed Rooms.xyz lets you build interactive, 3D rooms and simple games in your browser

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” Image Credits: Rooms.xyz The idea for Rooms was inspired by a combination of factors, explains co-founder Jason Toff — namely, that 3D model creation today was far too difficult. The startup seeded its community with 1,000 Voxel 3D objects it commissioned from creators, which can be added and customized in your own space.

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MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder

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This year at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show, MeetKai is launching several new platforms geared toward metaverse creators and users, including a way to digitize 3D spaces and buildings using any internet-connected device with a camera. ” Image Credits: MeetKai.

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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

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As generative AI like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 attract investor attention, startup entrepreneurs are looking to cash in with new business models built around them. Poly’s first tool in its planned web-based suite generates 3D textures with physically-based rendering maps. Image Credits: Poly. ” Image Credits: Poly.

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Autodesk enlists Einstein AI to enhance customer service

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Even as it designs 3D generative AI models for future customer deployment, CAD/CAM design giant Autodesk is “leaning” into generative AI for its customer service operations, deploying Salesforce’s Einstein for Service with plans to use Agentforce in the future, CIO Prakash Kota says.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

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Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI technologies — that answers may not be truthful, generated images may lack compositional integrity, and outputs may be biased — but he’s moving ahead anyway. Michal Cenkl, director of innovation and experimentation, Mitre Corp. Mitre Corp.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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They had ChatGPT write the script, and other gen AI tools to create a digital person who reads the script, a scalable process with at least one measurable benefit: speed. We uploaded the library of innovative content from the last seven years across Cognizant, ring-fenced the whole thing, put ChatGPT 3.5

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Daily Crunch: Global VC firm Partech reaches first close of largest African fund at €245 million

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Bing, not Chanandler Bong : Frederic writes that Microsoft is celebrating “a new day of search” by launching the new Bing, complete with ChatGPT. million to power web-based 3D design. Tage writes that “overwhelming interest from LPs meant Partech Africa II surpassed what was initially set for the entire fund at first close.”

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