Figma for 3D

Happy Friday! This week I tried to find the middle ground between coffee-generated productivity and jittery confusion and I failed. Experiment starts again Monday.

Here are the news highlights:

🔼 Grok 1.5 will be available next week and Grok 2 is on the way, per Elon’s tweet.

👋 Amazon launched an app to upload your palm to pay across the stores it owns.

⛓️Bitcoin may be up, but VC money is still following AI.

Over the last decade, Figma ushered in a new era of collaborative software amongst creative teams, especially in design, video editing, and web development tools.

3D design, however, is still catching up. But with platforms like visionOS becoming more prominent, we can expect to see more startups tackle software built for 3D design specifically.

Bezi is one of those startups. Launched just over a year ago (and formerly "Bezel") by former Oculus makers Julian Park, Cecilia Uhr, Denys Bastov, Bezi a design and prototyping platform that offers collaboration on a spatial canvas.

Also like Figma —or other popular creation tools today from Descript to Canva — it’s built to feel familiar to the tools you already know, which fits into the Bezi team’s goals to democratize 3D software and enable more user-generated content. In other words, they want designers that don't have much 3D expertise to try 3D design without having to figure out Unity or Unreal Engine.

Yesterday, Bezi launched the addition of AI-generated models into their software. You can now use text prompts to generate 3D models and drag and drop them into your work. Bezi’s site also says it has a visionOS app coming soon. All of this is no doubt supported by a $13M Series A raised towards the end of last year.

Drop your questions or support for Bezi on the launch page.👇

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This year is already outpacing last year for AI product launches, but the community may be getting a little pickier with its support.

We’ve already seen 30% more AI launches in 2024 than this time last year in 2023, but there’s been an 18% decrease in AI products making it into the top 5.

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