Ben Mildenhall
6 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 20, 2024 by Justin Johnson · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Fei-Fei Li (4), Martin Casado (2), Justin Johnson (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 1 episode
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Sep 20, 2024 positive
Justin Johnson: Ben Mildenhall's 2020 NeRF paper ignited 3D computer vision
“In 2020, you asked about breakthrough moments. There was a really big breakthrough moment from our co-founder Ben Mildenhall at the time with his paper, NERF neural radiance fields. And that was a very simple, very clear way of backing out three D structure fr…”
Sep 4, 2026 bullish
Mildenhall: Spatial creative workflows require stateful assets over ephemeral prompting
“Like, this statefulness and persistence is so key in how people think about spatial reasoning and, like, developing an environment over time. Like, people don't think in this ephemeral, like, generate a thing, like, just throw it away, keep my text prompts. Li…”
Sep 4, 2026 bullish
Ben Mildenhall: Atlas reduces house 3D reconstruction from 2,000 photos to 30
“I'm taking captures I did with 2000 images of a multi room house and taking it down to like 30, 40 inputs and the fly through looks like basically the same. And this is just like totally inconceivable before. And it's all enabled by building this gracefully sc…”
Sep 4, 2026 neutral
Sep 4, 2026 negative
Mildenhall: No creative uses a single monolithic AI model for entire tasks
“I don't think there's a single person out there using one monolithic model, not even C dance or whatever for their entire task. People will have this, like, you know, kind of bunch of storyboards and mood boards of images they pull out from, like, their favori…”
Sep 4, 2026 neutral