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Simon Willison creates a custom 'pet' for Codex Desktop — a pelican on a bicycle — entirely via AI image generation using GPT-5.6 Sol and gpt-image-2, documenting the open-source process and sprite generation.
Google marks 25 years of Google Images by introducing a new browsable image gallery and AI-powered image generation in Search using the Nano Banana model, enabling users to create custom visuals from text prompts.
Google is redesigning the Google Images homepage to show a dynamic, personalized gallery of images before you search, and will soon allow AI Overviews to generate images using its Nano Banana 2 Lite model.
Spatially Speculative Decoding (SSD) accelerates autoregressive image models by predicting entire rows in parallel using small helper networks, achieving up to 13.28x speedup while maintaining benchmark performance.
Boogu-Image-0.1 is an open-source family of unified multimodal understanding and generation models that achieves competitive performance in text-to-image generation, fast inference, instruction-based editing, and bilingual text rendering, with low training cost of approximately $400K.
This paper proposes a multi-conditioned diffusion-based synthesis pipeline using Stable Diffusion XL and ControlNet to generate synthetic sand boil imagery for low-resource earthen-levee inspection, addressing the scarcity of annotated defect examples.
Seedream 5.0 Pro is a highly controllable AI image generation and editing model that works with reference images and prompts. It is available via BytePlus API and can be used directly on Lumina for tasks like making ads, editing characters, and creating blueprints.
A new image model called SEFI-image has been introduced.
A local desktop UI for stable diffusion cpp called Flaxeo Image has been built.
Meta has removed a controversial AI feature on Instagram that allowed users to generate images by referencing public Instagram accounts without notification, following widespread backlash and scrutiny.
An analysis comparing the costs of 33 different AI image generation models, providing insights into pricing and value for developers and businesses.
A comment expressing nostalgia for the time when AI-generated images were easily distinguishable from real ones, highlighting the increasing sophistication of visual AI.
D2PO proposes a dynamic preference optimization framework that aligns diffusion sampling policies with perceptual quality using direct preference optimization, outperforming regression-based methods under low-NFE constraints.
ByteDance debuts Seedream 5.0 Pro, a multimodal image-creation model for production design with advanced reasoning, complex visualization, precise editing, realistic textures, and native multilingual support.
Meta has launched Muse Image, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, now available in Meta AI across its apps. The model supports advanced reasoning, multi-reference composition, and is ranked No.2 on Arena, with plans for Muse Video and Content Seal watermarking.
Meta has introduced a new image generation model called Muse, marking its entry into the competitive AI image generation space.
ByteDance launches Seedream 5.0 Pro, a multimodal image creation model with breakthroughs in complex information visualization, interactive precision editing, realistic imagery, and native multilingual support.
Meta's integration of image generation into social and ad platforms exemplifies a shift where AI models become platform features, making benchmarks less relevant than distribution power and default placement.
Meta unveils Muse Image, its first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, integrated into Meta AI and across Instagram, WhatsApp, and other apps. The model enables high-quality text-to-image generation, editing, and creative presets, with features like room redesign and Instagram profile tagging.
Meta has unveiled Muse Image, a free AI image generator available via Meta AI app, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp, featuring presets, prompt-based editing, and integration with Facebook Marketplace.