Thursday, February 20th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerChaos acquires architectural AI tools developer EvolveLABhtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"Chaos has acquired architectural tools developer EvolveLAB. The financial terms of the deal have not been announced.The firms have not confirmed whether there will be any price changes to EvolveLABs tools, which include AI ideation and visualization app Veras, but all will remain standalone products.EvolveLAB: workflow add-ons and AI ideation tools for Revit and other architectural appsFounded in 2015, EvolveLAB develops workflow tools for architectural design and BIM software: primarily Revit, but also AutoCAD, Rhino and SketchUp.Its flagship application, Veras, is a generative AI-powered tool, available as an add-on for Revit, Rhino, SketchUp and VectorWorks, and as a web app.It generates AI images of buildings, primarily for the ideation phases of architectural design.EvolveLABs other products include Revit add-ons Morphis, for generative design, and Glyph, for documentation; plus Helix, which converts AutoCAD and SketchUp files to Revit components.Veras: a natural fit for Enscape users?Chaos has now acquired all of EvolveLABs tools, and at least some of its staff: both EvolveLAB founder and CEO Bill Allen and CTO Ben Guler will join Chaos.Of the new tools, the one with the most obvious fit to Chaoss own software is Veras: the announcement gives examples of architectural practices using Veras for ideation, and Enscape, Chaoss real-time renderer, for final rendering.According to Chaoss FAQs on the buyout, In the future, we will look to integrate Veras and Enscape for even faster iteration cycles. Chaos previously previewed its own work-in-progress AI technologies, announcing them last year under the banner Chaos Next, although it has since removed that page from its website.According to Chaos, the two firms will now join forces and work together to explore ways to integrate products and accelerate our AI roadmaps.What does the buyout mean for users of EvolveLAB and Chaoss other software?EvolveLABs other products are much further from Chaoss existing software, which is focused far more on visualization than design, and includes the V-Ray, Corona and Vantage renderers.Veras is currently the only EvolveLAB app listed in the All Products section of Chaoss website.However, the FAQs on the acquisition say that all products will remain available as standalone offerings.The FAQs dont say whether the cost of the products will change, but note that Chaos is exploring options to combine the EvolveLAB and Chaos offerings at an attractive price.Read Chaoss announcement that it has acquired EvolveLABRead Chaoss FAQs on the buyout (at the foot of the page)Read EvolveLABs own announcementHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Latest NewsChaos acquires architectural AI tools developer EvolveLABChaos adds AI visualization and ideation app Veras to its product line. See what the buyout means for users of both firms' tools.Thursday, February 20th, 2025Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1Sizeable update to the real-time visualization app adds volumetric clouds, Virtual Shadow Maps and automatic LOD generation.Wednesday, February 19th, 2025Assetify 2 converts Blender animations to game-ready formatsAsset baking and export add-on can now convert Geometry Nodes to shape keys for export to game engines in glTF or Alembic format.Tuesday, February 18th, 2025Is AI replacing render farms?[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.Tuesday, February 18th, 20255 key features in Blender 4.4Check out the key changes due in the next version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and viewport rendering.Monday, February 17th, 2025SuperSplat 2.0 lets you create flythroughs of 3D Gaussian SplatsFree, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3DGS data can now add camera animations to existing scans.Monday, February 17th, 2025More NewsKeenTools releases KeenTools 2025.1 for Blender and NukeMaxon releases Red Giant 2025.3 and Universe 2025.2Maxon releases Redshift 2025.3Chaos releases Vantage 2.7Adobe launches the Firefly Video Model in public betaWacom launches redesigned Intuos Pro pen tabletsFree add-on Paint System 'turns Blender into Photoshop'Free tools: Render Manager and Light Editor for BlenderRichard Rosenman releases IK Studio for After EffectsTopaz Labs releases Gigapixel 8.2See CG benchmarks for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUsChaos releases Beta 2 of the new V-Ray for BlenderOlder Posts