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Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
News•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Jan 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
Social•Dec 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
News•Dec 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
Social•Dec 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
Social•Dec 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
Social•Dec 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
Social•Dec 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
Deals•Aug 4, 2025
Canva Acquires Affinity and Leonardo AI to Bolster Pro Tools and AI Capabilities
Canva has made strategic acquisitions of professional design tool Affinity and AI creation firm Leonardo AI to expand its pro design offerings and internal image-generation capabilities. Leonardo AI's Phoenix model now powers Canva's image generation while Affinity remains an independent...
Bilawal Sidhu
Deals•Jul 18, 2025
Google Acquired Keyhole (the Precursor to Google Earth) in 2004
The article recounts Google’s 2004 acquisition of Keyhole, the company behind EarthViewer, which became Google Earth and transformed from paid enterprise software into a widely used free platform. The deal underpinned Google’s development of planetary-scale mapping, imagery products, and later...
Bilawal Sidhu
Deals•Jul 7, 2025
Google's 2004 Acquisition of Keyhole Paved Way for Google Earth
The article recounts Google's 2004 acquisition of Keyhole (the Keyhole EarthViewer product), which was integrated and relaunched as Google Earth, transforming a niche mapping tool into a global platform with later AI-driven capabilities.
Bilawal Sidhu
Deals•Feb 16, 2025
Elon Musk's $97B Bid to Acquire OpenAI Rejected
Elon Musk made a $97 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, a high-profile takeover attempt reported and ultimately rejected. The offer was highlighted amid geopolitical discussions at the Paris AI Summit and underscored competition over control of leading AI assets.
Bilawal Sidhu