--- title: This AI Creates Insane 3D Worlds | daily.dev description: A new model from Tencent called WorldClaw (also referred to as Hunyuan) can generate entire 3D worlds from a text prompt, producing every individual asset in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-ai-creates-insane-3d-worlds-lem8mp5wa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This AI Creates Insane 3D Worlds | daily.dev og:description: A new model from Tencent called WorldClaw (also referred to as Hunyuan) can generate entire 3D worlds from a text prompt, producing every individual asset in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-ai-creates-insane-3d-worlds-lem8mp5wa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Lem8mp5Wa.png og:image:alt: This AI Creates Insane 3D Worlds og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This AI Creates Insane 3D Worlds **[Matt Wolfe](https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new model from Tencent called WorldClaw (also referred to as Hunyuan) can generate entire 3D worlds from a text prompt, producing every individual asset in the scene as a separately editable 3D object. It works by first generating a 2D image with GPT Image 2, using a segment-anything model to break out individual elements, then converting each 2D segment into a 3D asset via Tencent's Hunyuan 2D-to-3D technology. Potential use cases include building virtual environments for training robots before real-world deployment. The model is not yet publicly available to try. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does Tencent's WorldClaw model generate a 3D world from a text prompt? It first generates a 2D image of the scene using GPT Image 2, then applies a segment-anything model to break the image into individual elements like trees, houses, or carts, and finally uses Tencent's Hunyuan 2D-to-3D conversion technology to turn each segmented element into its own editable 3D asset, rather than a single Gaussian splat or NeRF scene. _Developers tracking new generative 3D and robotics-training tools can follow this kind of breakthrough on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [WorldClaw — Agentic 3D Open-World Generation at Scale](https://daily.dev/posts/worldclaw-agentic-3d-open-world-generation-at-scale-m5wuote6l) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [World Models: The Quiet Race to Build AI That Understands Reality, Not Just Language](https://daily.dev/posts/world-models-the-quiet-race-to-build-ai-that-understands-reality-not-just-language-2pfjhmqhl) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#genai](https://daily.dev/tags/genai), [#computer-vision](https://daily.dev/tags/computer-vision), [#robotics](https://daily.dev/tags/robotics) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/this-ai-creates-insane-3d-worlds-lem8mp5wa) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"This AI Creates Insane 3D Worlds","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-ai-creates-insane-3d-worlds-lem8mp5wa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-ai-creates-insane-3d-worlds-lem8mp5wa"},"datePublished":"2026-08-24T12:36:46.522Z","dateModified":"2026-08-24T12:37:03.888Z","description":"A new model from Tencent called WorldClaw (also referred to as Hunyuan) can generate entire 3D worlds from a text prompt, producing every individual asset in...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZY628bslSYY/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZY628bslSYY/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Matt Wolfe","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Matt Wolfe","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--JWE7fI4Q--/f_auto/v1716024560/logos/mreflow","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-ai-creates-insane-3d-worlds-lem8mp5wa","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"genai,computer-vision,robotics","timeRequired":"PT1M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"This AI Creates Insane 3D Worlds","description":"A new model from Tencent called WorldClaw (also referred to as Hunyuan) can generate entire 3D worlds from a text prompt, producing every individual asset in...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZY628bslSYY/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-08-24T12:36:46.522Z","duration":"PT1M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/Lem8mp5Wa","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZY628bslSYY"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Matt Wolfe","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"This AI Creates Insane 3D Worlds"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-ai-creates-insane-3d-worlds-lem8mp5wa#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How does Tencent's WorldClaw model generate a 3D world from a text prompt?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"It first generates a 2D image of the scene using GPT Image 2, then applies a segment-anything model to break the image into individual elements like trees, houses, or carts, and finally uses Tencent's Hunyuan 2D-to-3D conversion technology to turn each segmented element into its own editable 3D asset, rather than a single Gaussian splat or NeRF scene. 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