Roblox’s new AI model can generate 3D objects

Mar 17, 2025 08:30 PM - 11 months ago 423154

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Roblox is launching and open-sourcing Cube 3D, the first type of its foundational AI exemplary for generating 3D objects.

“With Cube, we intend to make 3D creation much efficient,” Roblox says in a property release. “With 3D mesh generation, developers tin quickly research caller imaginative directions and summation their productivity by deciding quickly which to move guardant with.”

The exemplary is trained connected 3D objects, arsenic Roblox explains successful its property release:

To execute this, we’ve taken inspiration from state-of-the-art models trained connected matter tokens (or sets of characters) truthful they tin foretell the adjacent token to shape a sentence. Our invention builds connected the aforesaid halfway idea. We’ve built the expertise to tokenize 3D objects and understand shapes arsenic tokens and trained Cube 3D to foretell the adjacent style token to build a complete 3D object.

Example objects created by Roblox’s Cube AI model.

Image: Roblox

The existent information utilized to train the exemplary includes “a operation of licensed and publically disposable datasets, arsenic good arsenic acquisition information from the Roblox ecosystem,” spokesperson Samantha Spielman tells The Verge.

Down the line, Cube 3D will beryllium capable to make objects utilizing images arsenic inputs, too. “It will yet beryllium a multimodal model, trained connected text, images, video, and different types of input – and will merge pinch our existing AI creation tools,” according to Roblox.

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