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YZi Labs invests in Funes to build global 3D architecture archive
Changpeng Zhao’s venture firm, YZi Labs, has announced an investment in Funes, a digital heritage platform aiming to build the world’s largest open archive of 3D architectural models.
As humanity’s digital world rapidly expands, many architectural masterpieces are deteriorating or disappearing. Funes is developing an “eternal” online museum that stores 3D models of all human-made structures using crowdsourced photogrammetry and computer vision with unprecedented detail.
Just as Wikipedia captures human knowledge, Funes seeks to preserve the physical memory of the world — a living archive of everything humanity has built.
To date, Funes has digitized nearly 1,000 architectural models, including temples, ruins, monasteries, and modern landmarks, and plans to add more than 1,000 new models per year. Each model is accompanied by multimodal data, such as text, images, and structural metadata, forming a research-grade dataset for scholars, creators, and technologists.
The largest 3D architecture museum
This expanding archive is expected to become the most comprehensive real-world 3D dataset ever created — with cultural and commercial value growing alongside advances in AI and digital preservation.
The investment aligns with YZi Labs’ strategy of supporting projects that unite cultural heritage, artificial intelligence, and Web3 infrastructure.
The undisclosed capital will fund three key workstreams:
- Modeling: capturing exhaustive 3D data of historical and contemporary sites worldwide
- Online experience: building a seamless interactive platform for exploring models and metadata
- AI integration: combining real-world data with tech like 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), Radiance Fields (RF) and LLMs for generative, research, and educational applications
“Looking ahead, the accuracy, scale, and multidimensional richness of our models will continue to grow. Beyond their value for viewing and collecting, Funes will lay a strong foundation for future commercial applications — especially those that integrate naturally with emerging LLM paradigms and novel computer vision technologies,” said Hanyang Wang, co-founder of Funes.
According to Dana X., Investment Partner at YZi Labs, this initiative is a “mission for humanity”. She described Funes as a “GitHub for the physical world,” where the global community can preserve and build upon detailed digital blueprints of culturally significant sites.
As we wrote, YZi Labs leads $11M round for AI education platform VideoTutor
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