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NPCTalk: Voice-Chat With Any NPC in GTA V

Game Gen News
NPCTalk: Voice-Chat With Any NPC in GTA V
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Universal Modder's new MIT toolkit NPCTalk lets a coding agent wire talking NPCs into a single-player game: you speak, the NPC answers in character in a cloned Fish Audio Drama 3 voice about 1.2–2.2 seconds later, and acts on what you said. GTA V example, latency budget, costs and voice scores inside.

MOSS-Image Drops 5B Open Weights

Image Gen News
MOSS-Image Drops 5B Open Weights
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OpenMOSS ships MOSS-Image — a 5B DiT with Apache-2.0 weights, 4K-token prompts, and native JSON layout control. Run it today via Diffusers, Gradio, ComfyUI Manager, ModelScope, or HF Spaces.

3DCodeVerse: Coding Agents Build 3D as Code

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3DCodeVerse: Coding Agents Build 3D as Code
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USC-led 3DCodeVerse open-sources an Apache 2.0 harness that makes Claude Code, Codex or Gemini agents write Blender, Three.js, URDF and GLSL assets, then runs, measures and judges them. Costs, commands, and what the gated dataset holds today.

Krea 3 Lands in ComfyUI Partner Nodes

Image Gen News
Krea 3 Lands in ComfyUI Partner Nodes
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ComfyUI just shipped a hosted Krea 3 Partner Node — text-to-image and instruction edits with up to 8 refs, 1K/2K, and precise-edit mode, billed on Comfy credits.

fal Worlds: Walkable World Models Over WebRTC

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fal Worlds: Walkable World Models Over WebRTC
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fal launches Worlds plus realtime WebRTC endpoints for Lingbot World 2 and Abot World 0: start from an image, steer with WASD and camera commands, $0.00125 per compute second. The WMA layer is still experimental.

GPT-Live-1.1: ChatGPT Voice Gets 13 New Voices

Audio Gen News
GPT-Live-1.1: ChatGPT Voice Gets 13 New Voices
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OpenAI rolled out GPT-Live-1.1 and the smaller Quip to ChatGPT Voice: full-duplex Live mode with 13 new voices, better non-English accents, and less “checking…”. Free for all users today, API coming soon.

MeshAxiom: Face-Budget Meshes for Worlds

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MeshAxiom: Face-Budget Meshes for Worlds
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AlayaLab open-weights MeshAxiom-Base: one image plus a face budget becomes a native triangle mesh — vertices and connectivity generated together, not decimated later. Self-host on CUDA; license still pending.

FLUX 3 Image Klein: 5.6B Open Weights

Image Gen News
FLUX 3 Image Klein: 5.6B Open Weights
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Black Forest Labs open-weights FLUX 3 Image Klein — 5.6B params, native 4K, bounding boxes, up to 10 refs. Day-0 on ComfyUI, Diffusers, fal, and the BFL API from $0.009/1K.

Effigy: Local Game-Ready 3D Assets on 16 GB

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Effigy: Local Game-Ready 3D Assets on 16 GB
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A solo dev's new MIT tool turns a sentence or a picture into a textured, auto-rigged, animated 3D asset — plus pixel sprites — exported to Godot, Unreal or Unity, fully offline on one 16 GB NVIDIA card.

Kling 4.0 Fully Available on App, MCP & CLI

Video Gen News
Kling 4.0 Fully Available on App, MCP & CLI
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Kling says 4.0 is fully available on the refreshed kling.ai creator UI plus MCP and CLI. HDR output and the public/enterprise API are still Coming Soon — confirm your model in-app.

Krea 3 API Hits Early Access: Specs and Pricing

Image Gen News
Krea 3 API Hits Early Access: Specs and Pricing
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Krea just documented the Krea 3 API: an instruction-following image editor with up to 8 references, pixel-exact regional edits, 1K/2K output, and pricing from $0.03 an image. Beta workspaces only, for now.

Espalier-2: TRELLIS.2 at 1536 on 16 GB

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Espalier-2: TRELLIS.2 at 1536 on 16 GB
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over|yonder Espalier-2 open-sources MIT patches that run Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D at full 1536 cascade on a 16 GB RTX 5070 Ti — Microsoft lists 24 GB as the minimum. Clone, install.sh, get a textured GLB.