<model-viewer> Web Component by Google (via) I learned about this Web Component from Claude when looking for options to render a .glb file on a web page. It's very pleasant to use:
<model-viewer style="width: 100%; height: 200px"
src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/cors-allow/2024/a-pelican-riding-a-bicycle.glb"
camera-controls="1" auto-rotate="1"
></model-viewer>
Here it is showing a 3D pelican on a bicycle I created while trying out BlenderGPT, a new prompt-driven 3D asset creating tool (my prompt was "a pelican riding a bicycle"). There's a comment from BlenderGPT's creator on Hacker News explaining that it's currently using Microsoft's TRELLIS model.
Recent articles
- My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup - 9th August 2025
- The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers - 8th August 2025
- GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card - 7th August 2025