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Overall, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry has stayed impressively restrained in terms of trying to leverage any potential coattail hype from the AI boom. Perhaps the leading enterprises left standing after the collapse of previous hype cycles are those most likely to proceed with caution under such circumstances.
It’s not as if there are no audacious claims to be touted regarding the opportunity to combine AI and 3D printing, either. Maybe the clearest example is the growing number of startups built to deliver AI-powered text-to-3D model generation. One such company, Meshy, based in the heart of Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale), just landed the largest funding round to date amongst this emerging group: a Series B worth nearly $400 million.
What’s more, the company publicly announced it