3D Generative AI Showdown: OpenAI Shap-E 2 vs Google’s AI Shopping View vs NVIDIA Picasso Edify
OpenAI’s Shap-E uses a two-stage pipeline where an encoder compresses 3D assets into latent implicit-function parameters and a conditional diffusion model generates new shapes from prompts. The original Shap-E, released in 2023, could turn text prompts or reference images into 3D objects in seconds and outperformed Point-E due to NeRF-based rendering and CLIP guidance. Shap-E 2 is expected to improve detail and realism but has not been formally released as of August 2025. Google’s 3D Shopping View (Veo) uses a diffusion-based Veo model to generate interactive 360° product spins from as few as three photos and is live for shoes,
