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Monthly Spatial AI Intel: Always Early, Always Positioned

BECOME THE PERSON IN THE ROOM WHO ALWAYS KNEW FIRST.

Always Early. Always Positioned.

Every month, one curated drop of spatial AI intelligence. Verified open roles with salary bands, the standout papers (each with working code), live funding calls, and one buildable weekend project. Hand-curated by Dr. Florent Poux. Never aggregated.

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This is the actual intel, not a mockup. One open role, one paper with working code, and one live funding call, lifted straight from the June 2026 drop.

June 2026 drop · real extract

Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM)

World Labs · San Francisco, Onsite
US · United StatesRESEARCHUSD 250k-350k base + equity (Bay Area disclosure)

World Labs is the spatial intelligence company behind Marble, a model that generates persistent, explorable 3D worlds. This role designs and advances SLAM and multi-sensor state estimation that gives those worlds accurate spatial structure from real sensor data.

PythonC++Visual-inertial SLAMGeometric visionNumerical optimization
FP
How to position

If your thesis is that the next foundation models are spatial rather than purely linguistic, World Labs is the cleanest bet on the board, and the founder bench (Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall) is genuinely top of field. This SLAM seat wants someone who has shipped visual-inertial or lidar estimation that survived real noise, not just a tidy benchmark. Lead your application with one system you debugged when the IMU drift broke everything, then say in one line how you would extend it to their world-model pipeline. This maps straight onto the registration and pose-graph work in module 4 of the Architect program. The base band is disclosed at USD 250 to 350k, and the equity is where the real outcome sits.

Posted June 2026 Apply
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arXiv:2605.13794 · arxiv preprint, May 13, 2026

BlitzGS: City-Scale Gaussian Splatting at Lightning Speed

Zhongtao Wang, Huishan Au, Yilong Li, Mai Su, Haojie Jin

City-scale 3D Gaussian Splatting usually chokes on the sheer Gaussian count. BlitzGS is a distributed framework that cuts the active workload at three levels: it shards Gaussians across GPUs by index parity instead of spatial blocks, scores and prunes the global population by importance, and culls per-camera Gaussians by distance and importance at render time. The result trains city-scale scenes in tens of minutes with rendering quality on par with prior large-scale methods.

CODE VERIFIED ✓arxiv preprint, May 13, 20263DGSCity-scaleDistributed training
FP
Why this matters

This is the paper I would hand to anyone trying to take 3DGS from a demo scene to a real deliverable. City-scale capture has always been the wall: you nail one building, then the city block runs out of memory and patience. The index-parity sharding is a clever move because it keeps every GPU equally busy instead of starving the one that drew the empty quadrant. If you have drone or street imagery of an area you know well, clone this, train it, and measure wall-clock time against your current large-scene pipeline. That single number is the kind of thing a city planning client actually cares about.

May 13, 2026
6days
FRANCE 2030 PIONNIERS DE L'IA

AI Pioneers call, June 9 cohort, three funding phases from feasibility to industrialisation

Bpifrance-operated France 2030 call backing breakthrough AI R&D in industry, energy, cybersecurity, biomedicine, and ecological transition, with a clear pull toward robotics and models that interact with complex environments. Three phases: feasibility (EUR 100k to 200k), demonstrator (EUR 400k to 800k), industrialisation (EUR 3M to 8M). The next submission cut-off is June 9, 2026. French-incorporated entities only.

EUR 100k to EUR 8M depending on phaseFranceDeadline Jun 9, 2026France 2030AIRobotics
FP
How to position

If you’re French-incorporated and your spatial-AI work has a credible industrial pull, this is still one of the cleanest calls on the calendar, and the June 9 cohort is six days out. Phase 1 feasibility at EUR 100k to 200k is reachable with a tight team and one well-defended use case, and a Phase 1 win lets you walk into Phase 2 demonstrator money without restarting the application. The work programme now leans hard into models that interact with complex environments and AI in robotics, which is exactly where point cloud perception and 3D scene understanding live. Lead the narrative with sovereignty: EU-trained models, EU-hosted data, and tie the project to one of the five priority sectors. Six days is enough only if your technical core already exists and you just need to write the impact section, so do not start this from scratch tonight.

Companies on the French RCS, research and higher-ed institutions, or consortia of these Apply

One role, one paper, one funding call shown. The full drop adds the rest of each board plus a buildable project blueprint.

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Sections per drop. Jobs, papers, funding, and a buildable project.

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Production experience deciding what actually matters and what is noise.

The field moves. You hear about it late.

A paper drops on a Tuesday. By the time it reaches your feed, it has been through three rounds of hot takes, and the working code repo is buried under reposts. A role opens that fits you exactly. You find it after it closed. A funding call with your name written all over it expires while you were heads-down on a deliverable.

That is the real gap. Not talent, not effort. It is timing and signal. The people who compound in this field are not smarter. They are simply earlier, and they know which three things out of three hundred are worth their attention this month.

The aggregator trap

Newsletters that scrape everything give you volume, not judgment. You drown in links, none of them filtered by someone who has shipped spatial AI in production. In a field this fast, raw volume is a liability. Curated signal is the edge.

What lands in your inbox every month

Not a digest. Not a scrape. Four sections, each one curated and verified by hand.

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Jobs Board

Verified, currently-open spatial AI roles with concrete salary bands and exact notes on how to position yourself for each one. Checked live, never recycled.

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Tech Brief

The month’s standout papers, every one paired with a working code repo, plus a plain reason why each one matters for your work. The noise is filtered out for you.

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Opportunities

Open EU, US, and France funding calls and competitions, deadlines verified. The chances most people miss because nobody put them in one place.

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Project Blueprint

One buildable weekend project tied to a current trend, with a 7-day plan and a starter repo. Proof you can ship, not just read.

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Curated, never aggregated

Every link is opened, run, and verified before it reaches you. One person decides what is worth your month. That person has spent 12+ years deciding exactly that in production.

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Compounding advantage

One month of being early is a nice surprise. Twelve months of it is a reputation. You become the person others ask, “how did you already know about this?”

Note from Dr. Poux

I read this field every single day, because my own work depends on it. The Monthly Spatial AI Intel is the filtered version of that habit. Each drop is the handful of things I would tell a colleague over coffee: this role is worth your time, this paper actually runs, this call closes in three weeks, build this before everyone else does.

How the membership works

Built for busy professionals who refuse to fall behind.

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One drop every month

A new lesson lands every month with all four sections inside. Read it in one sitting, act on it all month.

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Annual membership

One yearly payment of EUR 697. It renews automatically each year, and you can cancel anytime. No lock-in, no surprises.

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Curated by one person

Every drop is assembled personally by Dr. Florent Poux. Not a team of scrapers, not an algorithm. One practitioner, one point of view, full accountability.

Verified before it ships

Every role is open, every repo runs, every deadline is live at the time of the drop. The verification is the product.

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A growing archive

Past drops stay in your account. Over a year you build a private library of roles, papers, calls, and projects you can return to anytime.

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Already inside the Architect program

Members of the 3D AI Architect Professional and Architect tiers get this intel included. If the full program is your path, the intel comes with it.

Who this is for

This is for the engineer, researcher, or founder who has decided to stay at the front of spatial AI, not chase it from behind. If you want one trusted source that tells you what matters this month and what to do about it, this is built for you. If you would rather sift three hundred links yourself, it is not.

Inside a single monthly drop

Four sections. Each one is curated, verified, and ready to act on the day it lands.

Prerequisites

There is nothing to prepare and nothing to qualify for. If you work in or near spatial AI, lidar, geomatics, BIM, robotics, or remote sensing, this is for you.

  • No prerequisites: every section is written to be useful whether you are early in your career or running a team.
  • No software to install: the intel is reading and decisions. The optional weekend project ships with its own starter repo.
  • No long commitment: it is an annual membership you can cancel anytime. You stay because it earns its place.

If you can read a job post and clone a repo, you have everything you need.

01Jobs Board
Roles & Positioning

Verified, currently-open spatial AI roles with concrete salary bands and how to position yourself for each one. Checked live the month they go out.

Open roles in spatial AI, lidar, geomatics, BIM, robotics
Concrete salary bands per role and region
Positioning notes so you apply from strength
Direct application links, verified live
02Tech Brief
Papers That Actually Run

The month’s standout papers, every one paired with a working code repo, plus a plain reason why each one matters.

The handful of papers worth your attention this month
A working repo attached to every single one
Why each one matters, in plain language
The noise filtered out before it reaches you
03Opportunities
Funding & Competitions

Open EU, US, and France funding calls and competitions, deadlines verified. The chances most people miss.

Open funding calls across EU, US, and France
Competitions and prizes worth entering
Deadlines verified the month they publish
One place so you stop missing them
04Project Blueprint
Build It This Weekend

One buildable weekend project tied to a current trend, with a 7-day plan and a starter repo. Proof you can ship.

One project pick tied to what is trending now
A 7-day plan from setup to a working result
A starter repo so you begin in minutes
A portfolio piece that shows you build, not just read
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I’ve spent 12+ years in 3D geospatial: from field surveys with total stations to building AI systems for Fortune 500 companies. I published the O’Reilly book on 3D Data Science with Python. I’ve advised startups valued at over 15M EUR. I’ve held a professorship, taught at university, and led R&D for some of the largest organizations in the space.

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What exactly do I get each month?

One curated drop delivered as a lesson inside your account. Each drop has four sections. A Jobs Board of verified open roles with salary bands, a Tech Brief of standout papers each with a working code repo, an Opportunities section of open EU, US, and France funding calls, and one Project Blueprint with a 7-day plan and a starter repo.

How is this different from a free newsletter?

Free newsletters scrape and aggregate. They give you volume. This gives you judgment. Every role is open, every repo runs, every deadline is live, all checked by hand before it reaches you. You are paying for the filtering, which is exactly the part that takes a practitioner’s time and experience.

How much is it and how does billing work?

It is EUR 697 per year. One yearly payment that renews automatically each year. You can cancel anytime, and you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. No long contract, no hidden fees.

Do I need any specific background or software?

No. If you work in or near spatial AI, lidar, geomatics, BIM, robotics, or remote sensing, you will get value from day one. The intel itself is reading and decisions. Only the optional weekend project involves code, and it ships with its own starter repo.

Is this included in the 3D AI Architect program?

Yes. Members of the 3D AI Architect Professional and Architect tiers get this intel included at no extra cost. If you are heading toward the full program anyway, the monthly intel comes bundled with those tiers.

Can I cancel?

Anytime. The membership renews yearly, and you can turn off renewal whenever you like. You keep access for the period you already paid for. No forms, no friction.

Who curates it?

Dr. Florent Poux, personally. Not a team of scrapers, not an algorithm. One practitioner who reads this field every day for his own work, distilling it into the handful of things worth your month.

What if a link is dead or a role has closed?

Every role, repo, and deadline is verified live at the time of the drop. Fields move fast, so if something does expire during the month, the next drop keeps the standard. The verification is the whole point of the product.

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