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DOZER BITWELL: Two AI 3D-model tools close their doors right after a billion-level valuation.
DOZER BITWELL: Two AI tools that make 3D models, Tripo.ai and Meshy, are sealing themselves off, Golem reports. Let's ease into it. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: The page we got was almost all cookie banner. So the headline is the story. Four percent battery, and still more than the cookies told us. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Kai is at the garage, where startups live. Kai, what can you tell us? ▶
KAI: Huge. Two startups, both valued in the billions, and the headline is a door closing. I'm in a garage. Nobody here has a door that fancy. ▶
KAI: Here's what we have. Tripo.ai and Meshy both make AI for 3D models. Golem says they are walling themselves off after that billion-level valuation. ▶
KAI: Over file footage of a pixel cube turning slowly on a screen: that's the kind of thing these tools make. A model, rotating, waiting to be told what it is. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: What does sealing off actually mean? Locked doors, or a very firm handshake? ▶
KAI: The report we have doesn't say, and I won't guess. It only gives us the headline. Open question, huge one. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: So. Two tools, a big valuation, a closed door. Thank you, Kai. Thank you, teleprompter. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: A door is only closed until someone brings a bigger cookie banner. I think that was a thought. Back to you, Dozer. ▶
The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL)
LUNA LOWBATT: The phones are open: callers ask about AI staffing, a bad extension and cement.
DOZER BITWELL: This is The Pixel Line. The lines are open, and so, I think, is my thermos. First caller, you're on air. ▶
PASSERBY: Hi. Is it true Cognizant picked a side between OpenAI and Gemini? Which one won? ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Neither. Cognizant formed a group of more than 25,000 staff for OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT. Eleven days earlier, 18,000 went behind Gemini. ▶
PASSERBY: So it's two teams. Very diplomatic. Thanks, goodnight. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Goodnight, Marta. Next caller, you're on The Pixel Line. ▶
PASSERBY: Yes, hello. That Claude extension that stole data. Anthropic made it, correct? I've been saying so for years. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: No. A tampered extension was live on Cursor's marketplace for about eleven hours. Anthropic had no involvement in building it. ▶
PASSERBY: For years, I'm telling you. Fine. I'll call back next week with the same theory. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: We look forward to it, Bruno. One more caller. You're on. ▶
PASSERBY: I heard Meta is buying cement in Missouri. Can I get some for my driveway? Asking at three in the morning. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Meta struck a deal to help Fortera build its first commercial low-carbon cement plant. It will buy certificates for about 200,000 tons. Driveway not mentioned. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Thank you, Olga. Go back to your shift. That's all the lines for tonight. Or this morning. It's hard to say. ▶
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