Imagine a game studio gearing up to place a market scene. The designers need a lantern, tea cart, and robot vendor. Modeling ...

Turning a flat image into a usable 3D model once required significant manual modelling work. AI is changing that process.

Compare six of the best AI 3D generators for 2026, including Meshy, Tripo, Rodin, Sloyd, Spline, and Hunyuan3D, with features, pricing, and tradeoffs.

What if you could turn a simple photo into a fully realized 3D model, all without spending a dime? Below, Matthew Berman takes you through how SAM 3D, an open source platform from Meta, is ...

At Rapid + TCT 2026, I came across an exhibitor that at first seemed like it would apply primarily to hobbyists. (I saw pet faces on keychains on display—how cool is that!) But then I saw the ...

Creative projects requiring 3D models are time consuming and expensive. Developing 3D models needs specialized tools and ...

World Labs, co-founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, has announced Atlas, a world model that generates, reconstructs, and ...

In Modly, you can perform Text to 3D or Image to 3D, just as you would in one of the big online services. And, Modly is entirely free to download and run as it is fully open-sourced. There’s just one ...

Apple continues to focus on AI-powered image modification, with new studies detailing evaluation frameworks and an AI model that can turn 2D images into 3D scenes in a second. Here's what the ...

Apple's new AI, SHARP, crafts realistic 3D environments from single 2D images in under a second. This groundbreaking ...

AI can turn a single photo into a printable 3D figurine. Multiple AI systems quietly power each step of the process. Consumer tools make this workflow accessible at home. Writing for ZDNET has many ...