Terrain Diffusion Beats Perlin Noise Speed
Summary
Innovations across AI modeling, public safety tech, and specialized industry agents signal rapid real-world deployment of advanced systems.
- Terrain Diffusion Successor Announced as the diffusion-based successor to Perlin Noise for real-time, infinite terrain generation 4.
- AI Construction Agent Launch InspectMind (YC W24) launched its AI ‘plan checker’ agent designed to review complex construction drawings 3.
- Android Emergency Video Live Google launched Emergency Live Video on Android, allowing users to stream live video to emergency services 1.
- PS1 Super Mario 64 Port A heavily modified decompilation project successfully targets Super Mario 64 for the PSX platform 9.
- Investor AI Bubble Concern Oaktree’s Howard Marks issued a memo questioning if the current AI investment environment constitutes a bubble 5.
- W24 - InspectMind, a new AI drawing reviewer, was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch 3.
- Dec 10, 2025 - The launch date for Google’s Android Emergency Live Video feature for first responders 1.
- Infinite - Terrain Diffusion enables the generation of real-time, procedurally infinite terrain structures 4.
- Qwen3 - A next-generation native multimodal large model update was announced by the Qwen team 6.
Key Moments
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The paper presents Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise in Infinite, Real-Time Terrain Generation.
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Howard Marks issued his memo, "Is It a Bubble?", prompted by discussions about Artificial Intelligence (AI) during client visits.
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InspectMind... is a YC W24 launch of an AI "plan checker" agent.
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Google launched Android Emergency Live Video on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
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Different Perspectives
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[5] Is it a bubble?