Humans’ Old Monuments Get the Digital Twain Treatment-You Won’t Believe the Future!

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Well now, sit a spell and hear about how the geniuses at YZi Labs have taken it upon themselves to rescue our ancient and modern bragging rights from crumbling into the dust of history. They’re pourin’ their gold into a fancy digital ark, they say, to save the good, the bad, and everything in between, in high-fidelity 3D-think of it as their way of sayin’ “Y’all ain’t gonna forget us, no sir!”

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This here is the grand plan in a nutshell: they’re pourin’ money into a platform called Funes-sounds like a fancy hat, but no, it’s a digital museum where you can marvel at the pyramids and your old town’s courthouse, all in the comfort of your own parlor. They aim to make a kind of open, AI-infused catalog so folks can look, learn, and even fiddle with digital copies of places long gone or yet to be razed.

On the 6th day of November, YZi Labs went and laid down their chips on Funes, declaring it “A project for all mankind,” liken’ it to a “GitHub for the physical world,” which is fancy talk for “We’re buildin’ a digital blueprint of the universe, and y’all are invited to help.”

“These crafted digital blueprints save our history-our architecture-and offer a canvas for future tinkering. It’s like a crowd-sourced museum where every Tom, Dick, and Harry can join in recreating what was and dreaming of what might be,” said Dana H., who sounds like he’s got the inside scoop.

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The money handed over will go to boost three big ideas: first, to speed up that global modeling project so every old stone and new skyscraper gets its 3D moment in the sun; second, to whip up an online playground where folks can explore these digital wonders, no more boring catalogs; and third, to let AI do its magic-merging the real with the unreal using fancy tech like 3D Gaussian Splatting and Radiance Fields, whatever those mean.

Hanyang Wang, one of the brains behind Funes, says they’ve already digitized nearly a thousand structures-from ancient temples to city skylines-and plan to hoard over a thousand more every year. All this with YZi’s whopping $10 billion stash backing the venture, proving they’re serious about leaving a digital footprint that might make the Library of Alexandria look like small potatoes.

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Now, don’t get too sentimental-these digital relics are bound to outlive us all, and it looks like they’re just getting started. Given the big players involved, it’s fair to say we’re in for some digital marvels that even Twain himself might’ve chuckled at-probably from a hammock, watchin’ our past get a shiny new pair of 3D glasses.

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2025-11-06 20:02