"OpenAI Releases Point-E, an AI For 3D Modeling"

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/12/21/2255216/openai-releases-point-e-an-ai-for-3d-modeling

To produce a 3D object from a text prompt, we first sample an image using the text-to-image model, and then sample a 3D object conditioned on the sampled image. Both of these steps can be performed in a number of seconds, and do not require expensive optimization procedures.