Suran Goonatilake
39 posts
Thats awesome!
A developer used Al-powered 4D Gaussian Splatting to convert flat video footage into dynamic 3D spatial scenes.
The system reconstructs different camera angles and depth information from ordinary footage, making it possible to navigate scenes in three dimensions.
We're moving from recording video to digitally recreating reality itself.
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@alexfredo87 Hi Alex, did you have an example of GS -> 3D mesh and then animating this mesh?
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Big news I found a way to convert Gaussian Splatting into a standard mesh while preserving all the visual advantages of Gaussian Splatting, such as reflections, shadows, and lighting that changes depending on the viewing angle.
The result is excellent performance, even on an old laptop or a VR headset. And of course, the mesh can be animated like any regular 3D mesh, while still keeping the visual benefits of GS. I’ll soon show a full-body character animated using this technique.
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@mamboitaliano__ Evolution in action. Absolutely dumb adventure. Send a robot to explore these caves.
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🚨 A tragic theory is now emerging after inspections by the Finnish rescue team mapping the cave: the Italian divers in the Maldives may have gotten lost inside the underwater tunnels 🇮🇹🇫🇮
What remains certain is that this was an extremely dangerous activity
Repubblica@repubblica
Maldive, “i sub ingannati dalla sabbia hanno sbagliato uscita e sono rimasti intrappolati” repubblica.it/cronaca/2026/0…
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@MicheleSteele Evolution in action. How much dumber can you get when you can easily send robots to explore?
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This Maldives diving accident is the stuff that nightmares are made off. I won’t dive at night much less an underwater cave bc it only takes one person freaking out, kicking up sand and all of a sudden you have no idea which way is up. #nothanku
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What happened to those divers in the Maldives was truly horrific!
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@VaibhavSisinty Thanks for the post. Can you import a 4D gaussian splat into is?
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A world model now runs on a gaming GPU. 🤯
Give it a single photo. It builds a full minute of video you can move through, like the photo became a real place you can fly a camera around.
And NVIDIA just made it open and free.
Not a demo. Not an API with a waitlist. The full thing, code and weights, running on the kind of PC a gamer already owns.
A one-minute clip in 34 seconds.
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AI at UCL is taking over the world. I am pretty sure that no other university in the world - Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Tsinghua - are anywhere close to producing the number of AI unicorns. And, of course, UCL spin-off DeepMind, arguably, kick-started the entire 'recent' AI revolution. People think, wrongly, AI is a San Francisco (and US, China) - its a London thing.
ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/apr/…
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@DailyLoud Fake video. Notice the date formate. MM/DD/YYYY. If it was really UK it would be DD/MM/YY
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UK man walks into a café, randomly stabs a diner gets punched in the face then calmly waits for police to arrest him
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£500m for UK AI startups is great. In the industrial revolution, UK pioneered electricity, sewage systems and trains. Now, the most expensive electricity, water has sewage and the slowest trains. Let’s learn from Germany, France, Japan with state-owned utilities – markets don’t always work.
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@SebJohnsonUK @_rockt you meant 4-month old, not 4-year old, company. @_rockt is amazing. The UCL Centre for AI is fast becoming a Unicorn factory.
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A secretive 4-year old AI company incorporated in the UK has just raised $500m at a $4bn valuation.
The startup - Recursive Superintelligence, is building a new kind of AI that teaches itself.
One of the founders, Tim Rocktäschel (@_rockt), is a professor of AI at University College London and was, very recently, a principal scientist at @GoogleDeepMind.
The rest of the team is also STACKED and includes researchers from Meta, OpenAI and Google.
The FT (linked below) has reported that the company has raised $500m at a $4bn valuation led by @GVteam.
The round was so oversubscribed that it could end up raising $1bn.
According to the FT:
"Recursive has not yet officially announced its existence, but a filing at the UK’s Companies House register shows that it was incorporated in London at the end of last year"
Amazing news if the company is actually HQ'ed in London.
The city is having a huge tech resurgence and we LOVE TO SEE IT
Amazing stuff as always from the FT team @tim @IvanLevingston @GeorgeNHammond
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@RishiSunak Says the guy who didn’t do anything of consequence for the UK. You started off well, then, decided to rule by focus group. You discarded your green and tech credentials and became over-the-top-anti-immigrant. You had so much potential.
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Whatever mis-steps this president is making, the United States itself will recover relatively rapidly from this war.
The same cannot be said for the UK and Europe. I fear we will soon find out why America is the indispensable nation 👇
thetimes.com/article/f49467…
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@realRick_AUS The giveaway is the mouth movements of the TV anchors.
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52 year old Indian man charged with sexual intercourse without consent and 3 counts of indecency on a flight from Singapore to Australia.
Australian women are not even safe on bloody planes.
We need to stop bringing these people in!
When is enough, enough!
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20-something tech-bros out, 50/60-something PhDs in. This quarter SEED: Yann LeCun (65) $1B for AMI Labs, Fei-Fei Li (50) $1B for World Labs and David Silver (50) $1B for Ineffable Intelligence.
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OpenClaw and Pi together are in the top 10 of all time software breakthroughs.
Chrys Bader@chrysb
folks who are calling @openclaw pure hype are telling on themselves openclaw is like the early internet, it's raw, unrefined, and takes a little doing to get things to work, but when you figure it out, it's transformative. here are some real use cases that are having material impact on our $2.5M ARR business: 1. ad creative pipeline. our head of growth @ArjunShukl95550 built an end-to-end creative pipeline to go from ideation to publish adds to meta, greatly increasing our creative iteration speed. it's producing winning creatives. it lives in slack, and anyone on the team can share their ideas and have them enter the pipeline. 2. data analytics agent. another bot lives in our slack that connects to bigquery and lets our team ask any questions of the data, it produces charts and answers questions in real time. no one needs to write SQL anymore. 3. recruiting. i told my agent about a role we're hiring for, and it scoured linkedin and the web, found 30 candidates, portfolio, email addresses, and stack ranked them based on fit with our criteria this is just in the past week. i have twenty more success stories for you i can share another time. you have to understand, this is the shittiest it will ever be. everyone is going to have one or more personal self-improving agents that they use every day, and openclaw is what revealed this future to us. if you can't see this, i encourage you to look harder there will be many competitors (and already are), and the large labs will start to converge on this (they already are) too. openclaw may not win, but it opened pandora's box and uncorked the agentic future.
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s #Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actor has 59 million views on Youtube for a reason: it sounded like Leo was waiting 25 years to give this speech. He is beyond eloquent. These are the sort of moments that make the Academy Awards special. What a moment.
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@mcuban A 2026 problem but unlikely to be a 2028/2030 problem with exponential decline of inference chips + compute by sustainable (cheap) energy sources. I think there is a planned announcement on this by sovereign nation very soon.
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This is the smartest counter I’ve seen to ai taking over jobs, in the short term.
Is the ((aggregate tokens cost to do what an employee does + plus fully encumbered developer and maintenance costs ) / (fully encumbered employee cost ) )<= productivity ?
If it takes 8 Claude agents, at $300 for tokens, per day, plus $200 per day in dev/maint , to do what an employee does per day, at a fully encumbered cost of $1200.
That’s 2600/1200. But then you need to factor in the productivity rate.
Is it more than 2.16 x productive ? Are there qualitative issues like morale, morality, whatever , that can’t be quantified, that need to go into the decision?
What is the going forward progression of burdened costs for the tokens ?
Curious what people think about this ?
The All-In Podcast@theallinpod
What Happens When AI Tokens Cost More Than Your Employees? @Jason: “We, with our agents, hit $300/day per agent using the Claude API, like instantly. And that was doing, maybe, 10 or 20%. That's $100k/year per agent.” @chamath: “We're getting to a place where we have to basically now say, ‘What is the token budget that we're willing to give our best devs?’” “And then if you aggregate it across all people, you can clearly see a trend where you're like, ‘Well, hold on a second, now they need to be at least 2x as productive as another employee.’” “That is actively happening inside my business, because otherwise I'll run out of money.” Jason: “Yeah. This is a very interesting trend that you're not going to hear anybody else talk about, but when do tokens outpace the salary of the employee?” “Because you're about to hit it. I'm about to hit it.”
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"The most urgent film of our time."
THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST is only in theaters March 27. Watch the trailer now.
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