Tripo P1.0 Ships Production-Grade 3D AI at GDC
Tripo debuted P1.0, a native 3D diffusion model that generates production-ready 3D assets in roughly two seconds, at GDC 2026 in San Francisco
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OpenAI Robotics Chief Resigns Over Pentagon Deal
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics and consumer hardware, resigned on March 7, 2026, over concerns about the company's recently announced Pentagon deal
Pika AI Selves Lets Creators Build Persistent Video Avatars
Pika Labs launched AI Selves on March 7, 2026, a feature that creates persistent AI video avatars from user-uploaded reference material. Each AI Self has memory, personality traits, and can appear in any scene the creator generates through Pika's existing text-to-video pipeline
ElevenLabs Opens Iconic Voice Marketplace With Michael Caine
ElevenLabs launched its Iconic Voice Marketplace in early March 2026, a licensing platform where celebrity voices are made available to businesses and creators for commercial use
Anthropic Launches Claude Marketplace for Enterprise
Anthropic launched the Claude Marketplace on March 6, 2026, a procurement platform where enterprises can spend their existing Anthropic commitments on third-party applications built on Claude
IBM Granite 4.0 Speech Tops OpenASR Leaderboard
IBM released Granite 4.0 1B Speech on March 6, a compact multilingual speech model that now ranks first on the OpenASR Leaderboard for automatic speech recognition
Modular Diffusers: Composable AI Image Pipelines
Hugging Face launched Modular Diffusers on March 5, replacing the monolithic DiffusionPipeline with a composable block system
LTX-2.3: Open-Source AI Video With Desktop Editor
Lightricks released LTX-2.3 on March 5, 2026, a 22-billion-parameter open-source video generation model with native audio, portrait video support, and a companion desktop editor that runs the entire model locally. The release ships under Apache 2.0, making it free for commercial use and fine-tuning
Google Flow Merges Whisk, ImageFX, and Video into One AI Studio
Google merged three separate AI creative tools into one platform in March 2026. Flow now combines Whisk (mood boards and collages), ImageFX (text-to-image generation), and Flow's original video capabilities into a single workspace powered by Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana