[goodmattg]

I understand this is point-cloud diffusion but Ajay Jain et. al. (BAIR + Google Research) accomplished the first version I saw of this back in June with their Dream Fields paper (CPVR'22).

As always this goes to show that if you can't be the first, be the loudest. OpenAI has the most well oiled media machine I've seen in awhile.

Seeing the waves of publicity OpenAI gets with every new release, I think we're seeing a new model for big-tech AI research groups. It isn't enough to just hire world-class research talent that publish area-defining papers. There has to be a commensurate investment in media to publicize the research. Obviously, if you don't have the research, you have nothing to market. But it should say something that OpenAI prioritizes great design, communication, and publicity in addition to the world-class research team. It wouldn't surprise me if we see Google AI / DeepMind / FAIR / double-down with their own investments to expand the media presence of their AI orgs.

[1] https://ajayj.com/dreamfields