A neural radiance field is a small neural network whose weights encode one specific scene — not a model of scenes in general, a model of your kitchen. Gaussian splatting keeps the idea of fitting a scene to photographs and throws away the network, which is why it renders in milliseconds instead ...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/multigrid/neural-radiance-fields-and-gaussian-splatting-3m4e)