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One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models
- Matthias Niessner, a prominent AI 3D model researcher, has founded a startup named SpAItial to work on creating 3D online environments from text prompts.
- Niessner raised a substantial $13 million seed round, led by Earlybird Venture Capital, for SpAItial, despite having limited public demonstrations.
- The SpAItial team includes experts like Ricardo Martin-Brualla, who worked on Google's 3D teleconferencing platform, and David Novotny from Meta.
- Competitors in this space include Odyssey and World Labs, with a focus on photorealistic 3D environments for entertainment and various applications.
- Niessner aims for SpAItial's 3D world to be interactive and realistic, providing a unique user experience not yet achieved in the industry.
- Despite the vast potential in applications like digital twins and augmented reality, the go-to-market strategy for realistic 3D models remains complex.
- SpAItial seeks to generate revenue early on and is prioritizing quality over rapid team expansion, focusing on developing interactive 3D spaces.
- A key goal for SpAItial is to enable easy creation of video games and rich 3D environments, making the process accessible to a broader audience.
- Niessner believes that enabling users to create interactive 3D spaces quickly could revolutionize the industry more than just allowing the creation of 3D objects.
- The vision behind SpAItial is to revolutionize 3D generation, potentially replacing CAD and reshaping how users interact with and create 3D content.
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