{"id":333275,"date":"2026-03-07T05:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333275\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:27:08","slug":"chinese-start-up-deepseek-teams-with-tencent-hku-on-ai-tool-to-sharpen-3d-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333275\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese start-up DeepSeek teams with Tencent, HKU on AI tool to sharpen 3D design"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team proposed Pointer-CAD, a framework built on Alibaba Group Holding<\/a>\u2019s Qwen 2.5 model, which helps designers select edges or faces of a 3D object, increasing the accuracy and efficiency in computer-aided design (CAD), a tool widely used in engineering, manufacturing and architecture. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

The new method could \u201ceffectively support the generation of complex geometric structures and reduce segmentation error to an extremely low level\u201d compared with existing technology, according to a paper published on Wednesday on open-access repository arXiv.<\/p>\n

The authors \u2013 including DeepSeek researcher Liu Wen, Tencent\u2019s Zhao Zibo, HKU professor Ma Yi and Beihang University student Qi Dacheng \u2013 have open-sourced the novel approach, with code available at GitHub, the world\u2019s largest developer community.<\/p>\n

\"Pointer-CADPointer-CAD is a framework built on Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s Qwen 2.5 model. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n

CAD workflows typically begin with 2D sketches, such as lines and circles, which are then transformed into 3D modelling operations. Existing AI methods that generate 3D objects either consume too many tokens or do not support entity selection, limiting complex editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team proposed Pointer-CAD, a framework built on Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s Qwen 2.5 model, which helps designers select…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4489,153414,153415,24334,153413,4067,76666,61,60,32527,80,5838,76662],"class_list":["post-333275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-3d","tag-b-rep","tag-boundary-representation","tag-cad","tag-command-sequence","tag-deepseek","tag-hku","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-modeling","tag-technology","tag-tencent","tag-the-university-of-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}