Instant-NGP

NVIDIA · 2022 · 3D Rendering · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: NVIDIA
C · CEO & Politics: Jensen Huang — Pragmatic / bipartisan donor
D · Date: 2022
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Jensen Huang (CEO & Founder), Bryan Catanzaro (VP Applied Deep Learning)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: 3D Rendering
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (source code, NVIDIA Source Code License: research and evaluation only)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: NVIDIA's Instant Neural Graphics Primitives (instant-ngp, SIGGRAPH 2022), which trains and renders four neural graphics primitives (neural radiance fields, signed distance functions, neural images and neural volumes) as small MLPs with a multiresolution hash input encoding on the tiny-cuda-nn framework, fast enough to train a NeRF of a fox in under 5 seconds.
S · Stock / Status: $225 (NVDA, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @nvidia
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights 3D Rendering from NVIDIA, released 2022.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Instant-NGP.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/instant-ngp.html