VAST
- Founded
- 2023 · Beijing
- Focus
- 3D foundation models · world models
- Products
- Tripo Studio · Tripo API · JuJuBit · HolyMolly
- Footprint
- Beijing · Shanghai · Hangzhou · Shenzhen · remote
- Funding
- Series C closed May 2026
Describe it, photograph it or sketch it. Tripo gives back a model that works.
5M+
Professional users
100M+
Models generated
Tripo Studio. Generation, editing, retopology and rigging in one place.
H3.1 — Precision
Built to game character and industrial part standards. Geometry, topology and UVs go straight downstream.
P1.0 — Speed
Text, image, sketch or multi-view to a finished mesh in about two seconds.
Nine plugins
Blender, Unity, Unreal, Maya, 3ds Max, Godot, Cocos, ZBrush and ComfyUI. Nobody leaves their toolchain.
User story
Days of scanning and sculpting became one afternoon for a whole product line.
Harrison, Design Lead — Modelu
UK railway scale-model maker, generating parts from archive photographs
One team ships the models. The other is building worlds that keep running after you leave.
50+
Papers at top venues
30+
Open-source projects
30K+
GitHub stars
Project Eden. Genie, V-JEPA and Cosmos showed interactive worlds are possible — for one viewer, for a short while. Eden starts from there.
Physics, not pixels
Today's models learn what a scene looks like. We want them to learn how it behaves.
Memory, not frames
World state that persists between visits, instead of re-rendering from nothing.
Permanence
Old buildings, dying crafts, extinct species. Making new worlds, and keeping the old ones.
Where Tripo already runs.
Bambu Lab
Generation to print line, closed loop
NetEase · Eggy Party
3D creation inside gameplay
Stability AI
TripoSR, open-sourced together — 15,000 stars, developers in 157 countries
Alibaba Group
Series C strategic investor
Tencent
Enterprise API across game and content pipelines
ByteDance
Content pipeline integration
SAIC Motor
Industrial 3D generation — components and concept
Kujiale
Asset generation inside interior design
Our partners and customers
Awards and press.
Award
HICOOL 2025, First Prize
Chosen from entrants across 139 countries.
List
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
Song Yachen, 2026.
Regulatory
Dual national filing
First in 3D generation to register both model and algorithm with the CAC.
Stage
SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live, Best in Show
A live demo of generating interactive 3D assets in seconds, with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Hong Kong.
Forbes
Under 30 Alum’s 3D Model Startup Hits Unicorn Status Amid AI FrenzyRead
Bloomberg
Gen-Z Gamer’s 3D-Model Startup Becomes China’s Latest AI UnicornRead
GamesBeat
Tripo AI raises nearly $200M in financing for AI 3D and world model techRead
Animation Magazine
The Best of SIGGRAPH 2026 — Real-Time Live’s Best in ShowRead
What we value.
01
Passion
People join because they could not find this problem anywhere else.
02
Long-termism
When Tripo started, nobody knew what 3D generation would turn into. Time did that.
03
Truth from facts
The algorithm team argued for two weeks over a mesh pipeline. The data settled it, not seniority.
04
Deliberate innovation
Usually we are the ones defining the problem, not copying an answer.
Where the work happens.
Beijing
Headquarters
Algorithms, product, engineering
Shanghai
Research and engineering
Hangzhou
Research
Shenzhen
Hardware and manufacturing partners
Remote
Eligible regions worldwide
Open roles.
Flexible hours, ten days of benefit leave, early options. First authors at top venues get an accelerated rating.
V·STAR new graduate program
Top-of-band salary and early options · MS and PhD
vstar.talent@vastai3d.com
Research internship
From ¥1,000 a day · from ¥2,000 for top-venue first authors
vstar.talent@vastai3d.com
Experienced hires and partnerships
A reply in 48 hours · three rounds in a week
career@vastai3d.com