New Apple model combines vision understanding and image generation with impressive results

Manzano combines visual understanding and text-to-image generation, while significantly reducing performance or quality trade-offs.
VentureBeat

NYU’s new AI architecture makes high-quality image generation faster and cheaper

Researchers at New York University have developed a new architecture for diffusion models that improves the semantic representation of the images they generate. “Diffusion Transformer with ...
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China's Z.AI Releases First Major AI Image Generation Model Trained Without American Chips

Image, trained entirely on Huawei chips, as Beijing moves to block Nvidia H200 imports in a push for AI self-reliance.
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AMD opens the door to local Stable Diffusion AI image generation on Ryzen AI NPUs

TL;DR: AMD and Stability AI have unveiled the world's first FP16 Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium model, optimized for Ryzen AI 300 Series XDNA 2 NPUs, which delivers enhanced AI image generation quality ...
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FLUX.1 Kontext enables in-context image generation for enterprise AI pipelines

Black Forest Labs (BFL), the startup founded by the creators of the popular Stable Diffusion model, has launched a new image generation model called FLUX.1 Kontext. This model not only generates and ...