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The industry is currently split between those building infrastructure for a future that does not yet exist and those shipping tools you can use today. World Labs and AMI just raised $2.3 billion with no revenue plans. Meanwhile, Stability AI changed its Stable Diffusion licensing to target companies by revenue, forcing creators to rethink their commercial boundaries. On the technical front, Blender 5.3 alpha now includes native Gaussian Splatting support, bridging the gap between photogrammetry and traditional rendering pipelines. Alibaba also open-sourced Qwen-Image 2.1 with native transparency, while Higgsfield used GPT-6 Astra to deploy new video features in a single day. This contrast between heavy financial bets and immediate utility defines the current space.