Microduck robots pass 20,000 preorders after GTC Berlin demo

Y Combinator argues AI can automate plan reviews, zoning checks, inspections, licensing and public records, work still done largely by hand. It cites 19,000 US cities and notes permits can take longer to obtain than building the house.

OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model, letting developers submit a prompt and get a price for the work, before negative customer feedback reversed the plan, Sam Altman said. He spoke Thursday.

Idol converts one photo, render, or generated image into up to 1,048,576 Gaussians, output as a standard 3DGS .ply file. It strips the background and frames the object automatically, running on consumer GPUs at 7.2 GB of VRAM.