OpenAI Gets To The Point.E With Open Source Text-To-3D Model
The Register, December 21st, 2022
OpenAI has extended the capabilities of its text-to-image software from two dimensions into three with the release of Point.E, an open source project that produces 3D images from text prompts
The AI research firm has attracted considerable attention for its DALL.E software, which like rival projects Stable Diffusion and Midjourney can generate realistic or fantastical images from descriptive text.
While Point.E shares the bullet point symbol used in OpenAI's DALL.E branding, it relies on a different machine learning model called GLIDE. And presently, it's not nearly as capable. Given a text directive like "a traffic cone," Point.E produces a low-resolution point cloud - a set of points in space - that resembles a traffic cone.