The Inktelligence - January 13, 2025

Welcome to the second issue of The Inktelligence in 2025. Before we go on, I’d love to get your feedback on what type of content you’d like to see. Can you do me a quick favor and vote on my poll?

Here’s a quick rundown of what we’re covering this time.

Table of Contents

• Fast 3D rendering

• Physical AI

• Is the AI PC coming?

• Video generation in Canva

• Case study: Building useful mini apps

There were a lot of AI announcements this past week at CES. Here are a few of the notable ones.

Fast 3D rendering

Stability AI announced Stable Point Aware 3D (SPAR3D) working together with NVIDIA. This is real-time editing and complete object structure regeneration from a single image. It can go from a single image to a 3D highly detailed mesh in 0.7 seconds per object. Amazing.

Why is this important to marketers? It will reduce the cost and time required for generating 3D assets to be used for websites and AR/VR applications.

Physical AI

Think that AI only works online? It’s coming to the physical world too.

NVIDIA Cosmos is a platform designed to advance physical AI by enabling robots and autonomous vehicles to better understand and navigate the real world. It combines generative world foundation models (WFMs), scalable synthetic data, and integration with NVIDIA’s Omniverse for creating realistic simulations and testing scenarios.

Cosmos leverages extensive human activity datasets and AI-driven simulations to empower developers to accelerate innovation in robotics and autonomous systems, reducing costs and increasing accessibility. Early adopters include humanoid robot startups like Figure AI.

Is the AI PC coming?

NVIDIA Blackwell-based graphics cards are becoming available starting January 30, 2025. The flagship RTX 5090 boasts 92 billion transistors and over 3,352 trillion AI operations per second, setting new benchmarks for gaming and creative applications.

Then there’s Project DIGITS, a personal AI supercomputer designed to bring Blackwell's AI capabilities to individual developers and enthusiasts. Priced at $3,000, this compact system enables users to run sophisticated AI models with up to 200 billion parameters without relying on cloud infrastructure. What this means is that you can run frontier AI models locally without being connected to the Internet.

Video generation in Canva

Did you know that you can now generate videos in Canva?

Go to Magic Media → Videos. Then you can type in the prompt and click Generate.

The results are still quite underwhelming but this is the worst it’s going to be. Each month, you’ll get 50 credits which means you can generate up to 50 videos since it costs 1 credit per video.