Project Bernini: Generative AI 3D Shape Creation

Project Bernini is an experimental proof-of-concept and generative AI model that quickly generates 3D shapes from prompts including text, one or more 2D images, 2D sketches, voxels, point clouds and combined text and sketch input. This research exploration generates functional 3D shapes that, in future, may be used in different fields – architecture, product design, entertainment, and more.

The Autodesk AI Lab within Autodesk Research trained the Bernini model on ten million diverse 3D shapes, representing more than three billion machine learning parameters using a composite dataset of publicly available data, CAD objects, and organic shapes. Project Bernini remains a research effort and is not commercially available technology.

At this stage, Project Bernini is strictly experimental and is not available for public use. Autodesk is exploring new training data sets to move the technology from an experimental proof-of-concept to the company’s commercial solutions to help designers consider more ideas during the conceptual design phase. The prototype’s models will become increasingly useful and compelling when trained on larger, higher-quality datasets.