Bilawal Sidhu

Bilawal Sidhu

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Spatial intelligence. World models. Visual effects. Creator, engineer, investor w/ 1.6M+ audience. Tech Curator @ TED. Ex-Google PM (XR & 3D Maps).

Real‑time Video‑to‑video AI Bridges Games’ Uncanny Valley
SocialMar 16, 2026

Real‑time Video‑to‑video AI Bridges Games’ Uncanny Valley

Big moment. You can cross the uncanny valley in video games by using real-time video-to-video AI. You get the best of coherence & control from classical 3d engines, then use generative AI to take it all the way.

By Bilawal Sidhu
DoW AI Chief Demonstrates Palantir's Maven Smart System
SocialMar 13, 2026

DoW AI Chief Demonstrates Palantir's Maven Smart System

Probably the most current look at Palantir’s maven smart system software. Here’s the DoW’s Chief AI officer showing how it works: https://t.co/JZgKj8CT64

By Bilawal Sidhu
Exploring Latent Space: Fast 3D Word Generation
SocialMar 7, 2026

Exploring Latent Space: Fast 3D Word Generation

Bro is speed running latent space and conjuring 3d words into existence. The branching approach is intereresting. Need to try.

By Bilawal Sidhu
White‑collar Automation Arrives, but Benefits Remain Uneven
SocialMar 6, 2026

White‑collar Automation Arrives, but Benefits Remain Uneven

Behold the automation of white collar work. This graph gives new meaning to saying “the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed”

By Bilawal Sidhu
Public OSINT Enables Full 4D Strike Reconstruction
SocialMar 1, 2026

Public OSINT Enables Full 4D Strike Reconstruction

God's eye view 24-hour replay of Operation Epic Fury. The Iran strikes kicked off and I set an AI agent swarm loose to record every OSINT signal I could find before the caches cleared. Built a full 4D reconstruction in WorldView. I...

By Bilawal Sidhu
3D Object Tracking Simplified with Meta SAM and Blender
SocialFeb 27, 2026

3D Object Tracking Simplified with Meta SAM and Blender

3d object tracking is soooo much easier these days grab your video and use meta’s sam 3 to segment an object, then sam 3d to turn it into a 3d model then use geotracker in blender to track it across a video...

By Bilawal Sidhu
AI Assistants Become Personal Panopticons for Our Secrets
SocialFeb 27, 2026

AI Assistants Become Personal Panopticons for Our Secrets

Forget public conversations. People unload their inner lives - hopes, wishes, desires, anxieties and worries into their AI assistants. That data is way more sensitive & valuable than anything the govt could record publicly. We built our own panopticon and...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Complete WorldView Walkthrough: Features, Data Layers, Agents
SocialFeb 24, 2026

Complete WorldView Walkthrough: Features, Data Layers, Agents

Full WorldView walkthrough is up on the channel. Every feature, every data layer, and how I used agents to put it all together. Check it out here: https://t.co/H2chyeYRik https://t.co/6rLZS1aper

By Bilawal Sidhu
Agentic VLMs Prove 3D Still Beats Pixels‑Only View
SocialFeb 24, 2026

Agentic VLMs Prove 3D Still Beats Pixels‑Only View

Having an agentic VLM model, shade & render your 3d scene is the ultimate counter example to the “pixels is all you need” crowd. Real time video is powerful - it’s even a new medium. But explicit 3d is still...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Site Ranks #25, Exploring Generative Media Frontiers
SocialFeb 24, 2026

Site Ranks #25, Exploring Generative Media Frontiers

My site hit #25 in rising tech publications. I'm mapping the frontier of creation & computing. Written + video deep dives on generative media, spatial intelligence and world models. Check it out https://t.co/p2pWlEprPm https://t.co/flKQxCFmnz

By Bilawal Sidhu
Video‑trained AI Performs Real‑world Tasks Across Software, Design, and Driving
SocialFeb 23, 2026

Video‑trained AI Performs Real‑world Tasks Across Software, Design, and Driving

Pretty soon computer use models will feel like you’re standing over the shoulder of a colleague and asking them to do stuff — in blender, autocad or even piloting a drone. Except this colleague is unconstrained by wall clock time...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Beyond Nodes: Hybrid Neural 3D Engines Lead AI Creation
SocialFeb 22, 2026

Beyond Nodes: Hybrid Neural 3D Engines Lead AI Creation

Nodes aren't the future of AI creation. Here's what comes next. 0:00 - Nodes aren't the future 0:32 - The viewport problem 1:38 - Plumbing vs filmmaking 2:40 - No viewport; just a slot machine 3:22 - Stacks, nodes, and spatial engines 5:02 - New...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Building a Proprietary Data Fusion Layer This Weekend
SocialFeb 20, 2026

Building a Proprietary Data Fusion Layer This Weekend

big fan of ontology btw, but noted. building the proprietary data fusion layer this weekend 🫡

By Bilawal Sidhu
AI-Powered Geospatial Platform Rivals Google Earth, Palantir
SocialFeb 20, 2026

AI-Powered Geospatial Platform Rivals Google Earth, Palantir

Between Gemini 3.1 and Claude 4.6 it's honestly wild what you can build. This feels like Google Earth and Palantir had a baby. Made this with all the geospatial bells and whistles -- real time plane & satellite tracking, real traffic...

By Bilawal Sidhu
AI‑Powered Token Hustle Amplifies Productivity, Fuels New Anxiety
SocialFeb 15, 2026

AI‑Powered Token Hustle Amplifies Productivity, Fuels New Anxiety

The new hustle culture is undoubtedly making tokens work for you while you sleep, eat, shower, and scroll. I've got 6 ai agents working for me now. Some days it feels like an iron man suit for the mind, body, and...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Opus: Quirky Cowork
SocialFeb 14, 2026

Opus: Quirky Cowork

OpenClaw creator on Opus vs Codex: “Opus is like the coworker that is a little silly sometimes, but it's really funny and you keep him around. Codex is like the weirdo in the corner that you don't want to talk to,...

By Bilawal Sidhu
World Models and Game Engines Will Converge, Not Compete
SocialFeb 13, 2026

World Models and Game Engines Will Converge, Not Compete

World Models vs Game Engines -- Who Wins? Gaming stocks had a bloodbath after Google's Genie 3. Unity down. Roblox down. Nintendo down. Unity down 35%. Unity's CEO posted a whole thread. Tim Sweeney weighed in. They're both saying the same thing...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Auto‑fusing 360 Panos Unlocks
SocialFeb 11, 2026

Auto‑fusing 360 Panos Unlocks

Clean workflow to reskin reality 360 pano > nano banana > world labs Big limit is the navigable volume. Once we can auto fuse multiple 360 panos this approach gets v compelling. Y capture so much 3d data when are you need are...

By Bilawal Sidhu
4D Gaussian Splatting Redefines Immersive Sports Viewing
SocialFeb 6, 2026

4D Gaussian Splatting Redefines Immersive Sports Viewing

This will change the way we experience sports forever -- watching the game from a gods eye view. Arcturus is building 4D gaussian splatting tech that can capture every angle of a sporting event and pushes the bar for volumetric video....

By Bilawal Sidhu
Open Claw Revolutionizes Context Switching, Threatens VA Market
SocialFeb 6, 2026

Open Claw Revolutionizes Context Switching, Threatens VA Market

I simply do not see how Open Claw and systems like it won’t completely disrupt virtual assistant businesses like Athena etc. It’s been an absolute game changer allowing me to context switch like a madman without dropping a beat. VA...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Kling AI Model Cracks Visual Turing Test with Stunning Video
SocialFeb 5, 2026

Kling AI Model Cracks Visual Turing Test with Stunning Video

Holy shit the new Kling AI model is looking ultra crispy. Blows my mind how quickly AI video has gone from incoherent slop to shattering the visual turing test. https://t.co/l6n1MvSiku

By Bilawal Sidhu
AI Bot Swarm Could Transform Open-Source Development
SocialJan 31, 2026

AI Bot Swarm Could Transform Open-Source Development

what would happen if you let millions of moltbots / ai bots collaborate on open source software together?

By Bilawal Sidhu
Genie 3 AI Generates Real‑Time Functional Maps
SocialJan 30, 2026

Genie 3 AI Generates Real‑Time Functional Maps

One of the wildest emergent capabilities of Genie 3 is that maps actually work. As I walk around the forest, the GPS display updates its heading in real time. Remember. There is no game engine here. This is an AI hallucinating a...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Google Genie Turns Old Photo Into Walkable 1900s San Francisco
SocialJan 30, 2026

Google Genie Turns Old Photo Into Walkable 1900s San Francisco

Google Genie just let me walk through 1900s San Francisco. I gave it one black-and-white photo. It gave me back a city -- explorable from the sky or the street. This is the closest thing we have to a time machine. https://t.co/uBwPKt2kdq

By Bilawal Sidhu
DeepMind Unveils Genie 3: Text‑to‑3D Simulations Live
SocialJan 29, 2026

DeepMind Unveils Genie 3: Text‑to‑3D Simulations Live

Today is the day. Google DeepMind just shipped playable reality: https://t.co/cosaQeEbrr I went hands-on with their Genie 3 world model that spawns interactive, 3D simulations from simple text. We’ve moved past watching videos; we're now stepping *inside* them. Stick around to the...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Real-Time AI Video Model Goes Live
SocialJan 27, 2026

Real-Time AI Video Model Goes Live

This is happening live. It’s a realtime AI video model. We are so cooked. https://t.co/1myU0mkDZf

By Bilawal Sidhu
LLMs Are Untapped Lego Bricks for Endless Value
SocialJan 26, 2026

LLMs Are Untapped Lego Bricks for Endless Value

Clawdbot just goes to show that LLMs are magical alien technologies we’ve conjured up from a distillation of the internet. Even if AI progress completely stalls (it won’t); we still have years worth of value to derive from what we...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Hybrid AI‑Blender Workflow Scales 3D Scene Creation
SocialJan 25, 2026

Hybrid AI‑Blender Workflow Scales 3D Scene Creation

This is basically vibe coding for 3d — clever scaffolding for any VLM to iteratively reconstruct 3d scenes. Think blender MCP on steroids. As major AI labs continue to hill climb spatial reasoning benchmarks the results we can get will only...

By Bilawal Sidhu
From Mocap Suits to Phones: Avatars Go Mainstream
SocialJan 21, 2026

From Mocap Suits to Phones: Avatars Go Mainstream

Virtual avatars have become insanely accessible. Japan invented the VTuber trend in the 2010s, but the barriers to creation have been nuts — you needed a mocap suit, beefy pc to run unreal engine, and often multiple operators. Now all you need...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Real‑world Scans + 3D
SocialJan 20, 2026

Real‑world Scans + 3D

Mixing 3d models with real world scans (made w/ 3d gaussian splatting) is a powerful combination. And when you do it all inside an unbiased, physically accurate 3d rendered like Octane - the fidelity is truly next level.

By Bilawal Sidhu
ESRI Embraces 3D Gaussian
SocialJan 18, 2026

ESRI Embraces 3D Gaussian

It’s really cool to see “legacy” players in geospatial like ESRI adopt 3D gaussian splatting in ArcGIS. Radiance fields are v. complementary to point clouds and textured 3D meshes — exceedingly human readable and much closer to reality than anything else....

By Bilawal Sidhu
Photorealistic Capture Goes From Rare to Routine
SocialJan 17, 2026

Photorealistic Capture Goes From Rare to Routine

Photorealistic performance capture was out of reach for most people just a year ago. Didn’t expect it to get democratized so quickly. Funny part is we’re already over it - adding to the laundry list of AI superpowers we take...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Controllable 4D Video World Models via Gaussian Trajectories
SocialJan 15, 2026

Controllable 4D Video World Models via Gaussian Trajectories

This is some quietly impressive work on making video world models actually controllable in 4D space. VerseCrafter lets you take an input image, use something like Blender to animate the 3D camera path and object trajectories, then uses that to condition...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Anthropic Launches Claude Co‑Worker for Non‑technical Users
SocialJan 12, 2026

Anthropic Launches Claude Co‑Worker for Non‑technical Users

Anthropic just dropped claude code for normies who don’t wanna deal with command line — it’s called claude cowork: https://t.co/zHWdiKZa8Y

By Bilawal Sidhu
AR‑Powered Headset Lets Soldiers See Enemies Through Walls
SocialJan 12, 2026

AR‑Powered Headset Lets Soldiers See Enemies Through Walls

What if you could see enemies through walls -- in real life? Wall hacks are now real :-) This is the US military's new headset called Eagle Eye from Palmer Luckey's company Anduril. It fuses night vision, thermal, and AR...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Adobe Tools Now Built Into ChatGPT for All Tasks
SocialJan 8, 2026

Adobe Tools Now Built Into ChatGPT for All Tasks

Adobe @Photoshop, @AdobeExpress, and @Acrobat are now inside ChatGPT, collapsing what used to require a bunch of apps into a single chat. Whether you’re merging complex PDF proposals, designing social assets, or editing a headshot, you can do it...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Bookmarking Claude Code Blogs Faster than Reading Them
SocialJan 7, 2026

Bookmarking Claude Code Blogs Faster than Reading Them

Am I the only one bookmarking all these claude code blogs at a faster clip than I can actually read them

By Bilawal Sidhu
AI Breakthroughs Coming in 2026: World Models, Spatial Intelligence & Multimodality
NewsJan 7, 2026

AI Breakthroughs Coming in 2026: World Models, Spatial Intelligence & Multimodality

The episode explains how AI research has shifted from building better video generators to creating comprehensive world engines, driven by multimodal training, autoregressive architectures, and real-time frame prediction. It highlights breakthroughs such as native audio‑video generation, solving consistency issues with...

By Bilawal Sidhu
VPS Delivers Centimeter-Accurate Positioning for AR and Robots
SocialJan 7, 2026

VPS Delivers Centimeter-Accurate Positioning for AR and Robots

You've probably heard about GPS. But have you heard about VPS? It's the visual positioning tech that gives robots and AR glasses centimeter-level accuracy where GPS fails. Here's how it works: https://t.co/eVTcxKBHLK 0:00 - Intro 0:19 - How GPS Actually Works 1:28 - The...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Classical 3
SocialJan 4, 2026

Classical 3

If you have a specific vision in mind - classical 3d to exert control, and generative ai to take it all the way continues to be an unbeatable combination https://t.co/bmicGSxtXg

By Bilawal Sidhu
Adobe Partners with Runway for Exclusive AI Video Tools
SocialDec 31, 2025

Adobe Partners with Runway for Exclusive AI Video Tools

“Adobe and Runway will collaborate to develop specialized AI capabilities for professional video workflows that will be exclusively available in Adobe applications” Lord please let after effects get the attention it deserves

By Bilawal Sidhu
Beyond the Blue Dot: The Rise of Visual Positioning Systems (VPS)
NewsDec 30, 2025

Beyond the Blue Dot: The Rise of Visual Positioning Systems (VPS)

The episode explains how Visual Positioning Systems (VPS) overcome GPS’s meter‑level limits by using device cameras to match live views against detailed 3D models, achieving centimeter‑scale and orientation accuracy essential for AR, robotics, and drones. Bilawal Sidhu, a former Google...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Real‑time 4D Reconstruction Turns Videos Into Time‑Travel Portals
SocialDec 24, 2025

Real‑time 4D Reconstruction Turns Videos Into Time‑Travel Portals

There's something so magical about turning 2d videos into 4d reconstructions. Every video becomes a spatio-temporal portal back in time - one that you can revisit from any angle. Research like d4rt is turning science fiction into reality; and it's getting...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Reality Capture Goes Mainstream with 3D Gaussian Splatting
SocialDec 20, 2025

Reality Capture Goes Mainstream with 3D Gaussian Splatting

Never expected Casey to be poasting about 3d gaussian splatting but here we are. Reality capture is going mainstream.

By Bilawal Sidhu
On‑Device Visual Positioning Powers Real‑Time AR Magic
SocialDec 19, 2025

On‑Device Visual Positioning Powers Real‑Time AR Magic

A great visual positioning system makes augmented reality feel like magic... this tech helps your phone (or robot) figure out precisely where it is in 3D space. Here's MultiSet AI nailing it in real-time, at night, and on-device too. This new...

By Bilawal Sidhu
EgoX Converts Third‑person Video Into Endless Egocentric Robotics Data
SocialDec 15, 2025

EgoX Converts Third‑person Video Into Endless Egocentric Robotics Data

EgoX is really cool - generating immersive first-person view video from any third-person footage. If you can do this vision task well, you get endless egocentric training data for robotics. https://t.co/bMPlL7bkoq

By Bilawal Sidhu
Photoshop Now Lives Inside ChatGPT for Instant Editing
SocialDec 12, 2025

Photoshop Now Lives Inside ChatGPT for Instant Editing

Photoshop is now inside ChatGPT. Just prompt what you want and get slider-level control to dial in the perfect look. Intelligently select content and apply effects — without opening Photoshop. You're the conductor. Photoshop is the orchestra. For me, this...

By Bilawal Sidhu
AI Celebrity Likenesses Now Accepted: Tech and Legal Shift
SocialDec 9, 2025

AI Celebrity Likenesses Now Accepted: Tech and Legal Shift

Curious why Nano Banana Pro, ChatGPT image gen etc are all suddenly cool with generating celebrity likeness? Like what changed from days of deepfake fear-mongering and fears of legal repercussions? Did fingerprinting get good or is there a new legal argument...

By Bilawal Sidhu
Exploring SAM 3 and SAM 3D in New Video
SocialDec 6, 2025

Exploring SAM 3 and SAM 3D in New Video

Diving deeper into SAM 3 & SAM 3D in my new YouTube video. Check it out here: https://t.co/h65r2FzeMt https://t.co/mcDGKXrtcQ

By Bilawal Sidhu