Top AI News of the Week (June 17 – 24) 1. Anthropic introduces Claude Tag
2. Cursor announces three new features, including a model trained with SpaceX 3. Nous Research ships blank slate mode 4. Midjourney launches a new medical imaging division 5. OpenAI launches
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Top AI news of the week: Claude, Cursor, Nous, Midjourney, OpenAI
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ArtiFixer: Generative 3D Scene Reconstruction from Text or Few Views
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ArtiFixer doesn't just clean up 3D meshes—it is a robust generative engine. Even if you entirely drop the initial 3D rendering conditions, the model can rely on text prompts or just a few reference views to reconstruct the high-level structure of the scene and synthesize
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ArtiFixer uses DMD to make bidirectional video models 70x faster
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Bidirectional video models provide great coherence but are computationally heavy. ArtiFixer solves this via Self-Forcing-style Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD). By distilling the bidirectional model into a causal auto-regressive one, ArtiFixer achieves up to a 70x
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ArtiFixer delivers sharp results, outperforming baselines by 1-3 dB PSNR
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The results are incredibly sharp. When benchmarked on challenging datasets with sparse views like Mip-NeRF 360 and DL3DV, ArtiFixer handles highly degraded initial renderings effortlessly. It outperforms existing baselines (like GenFusion and 3DGUT) by a massive 1–3 dB PSNR
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ArtiFixer combines 3D reconstruction and video generation in two phases
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Instead of treating 3D reconstruction and video generation as standalone alternatives, ArtiFixer combines their strengths. > Phase I: Trains a powerful bidirectional generative video model to transport degraded renderings into clean frames.
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Opacity Mixing: Balancing Consistency and Hallucination in Video
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How do you keep the generated video consistent with existing views without losing the ability to hallucinate new content? The answer is Opacity Mixing. Instead of starting from pure noise, ArtiFixer:
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NVIDIA Research’s ArtiFixer uses video diffusion to fix 3D reconstruction artifacts
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NVIDIA Research just dropped a game-changer for 3D reconstruction.
— AlphaSignal (@AlphaSignalAI) 23 juin 2026
If you've ever dealt with blurry holes or floating artifacts in 3D Gaussian Splatting, ArtiFixer is the solution.
It uses a powerful auto-regressive video diffusion model to seamlessly repair and extend 3D… pic.twitter.com/5GLByeqf5PNVIDIA Research just dropped a game-changer for 3D reconstruction. If you've ever dealt with blurry holes or floating artifacts in 3D Gaussian Splatting, ArtiFixer is the solution. It uses a powerful auto-regressive video diffusion model to seamlessly repair and extend 3D
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Sakana AI releases Fugu, a model API for autonomous orchestration
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/4 Sakana AI just released Fugu, a new model API built around autonomous model orchestration. The stronger version, Fugu Ultra, is built for harder multi-step tasks. It scores 73.7 on SWE Bench Pro, 82.1 on TerminalBench 2.1, 93.2 on LiveCodeBench, 50.0 on Humanity’s Last Exam,
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GLM-5.2 open-weight model with 1M context window released
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Z.ai drops GLM-5.2 weights on Hugging Face. GLM-5.2 is a flagship open-weight model built for long-horizon tasks, especially coding and agentic work. Its biggest headline is a stable 1M-token context window, giving it room to handle large codebases and -
MiniMax M3: Open Weights with Multimodal & Context
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/2 MiniMax opens the model weights of Minimax M3 to the public. M3 is the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, a 1 million token context window, and native multimodal support (images and video) in one package. That combo was locked behind paid APIs until now. The