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Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings

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It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. So there’s a level of interoperability there.”

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Tencent Touts Open-Source AI Models to Turn Text into 3D Visuals

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released new AI services that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, the latest in a series of products to emerge from big tech firms since DeepSeek galvanized Chinese and US artificial intelligence development. Tencents five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 Tencent Holdings Ltd.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji

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The post We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji appeared first on DevOps.com. In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.

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Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden 

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The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. Lawn and order : Dominic-Madori reports that JusticeText raises $2.2

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New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality

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On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the real world. Researchers can also use an AI agent to generate 3D physics simulations from text prompts.

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Foxglove raises $15M to build dev infrastructure for robots

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That inspired Foxglove, which began in early 2021 as a fork of Webviz, an open source web visualization project released by Cruise three years ago. Foxglove creates cloud-based tools and libraries like the open source MCAP, which provides a standardized interface for companies to exchange data. Image Credits: Foxglove.