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Singapore’s PixCap draws $2.8M to power web-based 3D design

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A freshly funded player is PixCap , which is entering the fray with a no-code, web-based 3D design tool. CJ Looi , CEO of PixCap, is building the company when the web experience is undergoing what he called an “evolution from 2D to 3D.” 3D templates from PixCap. million from a seed funding round.

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Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more

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Hexa , a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 After all, the company was once one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers — not exactly entrenched in the 3D modeling space. They also can manage and assess the impact of their 3D content through our platform.”

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VOCHI raises additional $2.4 million for its computer vision-powered video editing app

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VOCHI , a Belarus-based startup behind a clever computer vision-based video editing app used by online creators, has raised an additional $2.4 To do so, VOCHI leverages a proprietary computer vision-based video segmentation algorithm that applies various effects to specific moving objects in a video or to images in static photos.

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Stability.ai gets new CEO and investment dream team to start rescue mission

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He was also Facebook’s first president, a role in which he was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the 2010 movie, The Social Network. The market opportunity in generative media — spanning images, video, 3D, voice and music — is just getting started.” Joining the board will be Sean Parker, co-founder of MP3 music icon Napster.

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Scalable training platform with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod for innovation: a video generation case study

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Video generation has become the latest frontier in AI research, following the success of text-to-image models. This text-to-video API generates high-quality, realistic videos quickly from text and images. When extended to videos, this iterative process must be applied to multiple frames, multiplying the computational load.

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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

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Bridge the Gap Initiative (North Royalton, Ohio) A student-run organization designed to help senior citizens navigate the digital world by teaching them valuable skills like texting and video calling using their smart phones. Some of these are pretty legit. Feel free to look me up when that pre-seed round hits, all.

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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

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One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual assets, including textures for 3D models, using only text prompts. Poly’s first tool in its planned web-based suite generates 3D textures with physically-based rendering maps.

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