[Secures $200M, then another 1 billion RMB: Gaming giants intensively betting on 3D world modeling VAST] According to monitoring by Beating, AI 3D generation company VAST (Sanqi Wanwu) has completed an over 1 billion RMB A3 strategic funding round, jointly invested by Geely Capital, 4399, Tanwan Games, Giant Network, and others, just one month after its previous nearly $200 million funding round. The intensive entry of industry capital corresponds to clear business demands. Gaming companies like 4399 and Giant are drawn to VAST's rapid 3D asset generation capabilities, such as reducing high-resolution texture creation time from several days to just 2 minutes, directly saving costs for game projects. Industrial giants like Geely, on the other hand, are targeting VAST's ongoing development of the 3D world modeling project, Project Eden, to generate low-cost, physics-consistent, multi-user interactive virtual simulation spaces for applications like autonomous driving and robotics training. [Original link]