VAST, the Chinese AI 3D company, dominated SIGGRAPH 2026 with a keynote on the new "Teapot Test," five technical papers covering the full 3D asset pipeline, a Best‑in‑Show Real‑Time Live! demo, collaborations with World Labs, and a TR35 honor for its chief scientist.
This article highlights four recent GitHub projects—YellowKey exposing a Windows 11 Bitlocker bypass, Clawdmeter delivering an ESP32‑S3 desktop dashboard for Claude Code usage, Pixal3D enabling single‑image 3D asset creation, and a‑stock‑data providing a comprehensive AI‑driven A‑share data toolkit—detailing their core mechanisms, hardware/software specs, and quick‑start instructions.
This guide walks you through using Tripo Studio 1.0—from logging in and navigating its three‑pane workspace, to exploring a massive AI‑curated asset library, generating models via text or image prompts, and applying iterative optimization tools such as splitting, retopology, texturing and rigging for real‑world projects like games, 3D printing and product design.
This article reviews five leading AI-driven 3D model generation tools—Tripo AI, Hunyuan3D, Seed3D, Meta SAM 3D, and Trellis 3D—detailing their capabilities, workflows, pricing tiers, and practical use cases, and explains why they are poised to dominate the 2026 market.
