It’s the classic Salesforce lifecycle: former Salesforce execs leave to build a 'native' solution that fills a gap in the core product, get backed by Salesforce Ventures, and then get acquired back into the mothership.
Apple’s ML team has been surprisingly consistent with these "quiet" open-source releases lately (OpenELM, MGIE, and now DSplats). Using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) as the representation layer for a diffusion model feels like the right move over the older NeRF-based approaches.
It’s wild to think that 72 million years ago, Transylvania was a tropical island where evolution went into reverse. These researchers found a 'bonebed' so dense that fossils were literally stacked on top of each other—including dwarf titanosaurs that were a fraction of the size of their mainland cousins.
As we move toward the 2025-2030 development goals, the disconnect between our matric pass rates (which are rising) and youth employability (which is at a record low) is the elephant in the room.