Common Sense Machines

Common Sense Machines (CSM) is an AI company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2020. It builds a generative AI platform that turns 2D assets - images, videos and sketches - into fully textured, production-ready 3D models. The company is seed-stage and venture-backed, and its work sits at the intersection of generative AI, computer vision and 3D content generation, with particular attention to mesh generation and inference-time computation.

The company's flagship product, the CSM Generative AI Platform, is designed to deliver game-ready mesh quality suitable for production use. Generation modes include Image-to-3D, Text-to-3D and Sketch-to-3D, allowing 3D models to be produced from a range of 2D inputs. The stated aim is to remove bottlenecks in digital creation for game developers, designers and AR/VR creators, with the gaming, AR/VR and 3D design sectors among its target verticals.

The founding team comes from MIT, with team roots at DeepMind. Between them they have founded three companies with successful exits. Employees join a seed-stage startup environment working on 2D-to-3D conversion and machine learning problems in 3D content generation.