Z.ai's open source GLM-Image beats Google's Nano Banana Pro at complex text rendering, but not aesthetics

Furthermore, Nano Banana Pro still edged out GLM-Image in terms of pure aesthetics — using the OneIG benchmark, Nano Banana 2 ...

Black Forest Labs launches open source Flux.2 [klein] to generate AI images in less than a second

Credit: VentureBeat made with Flux.2 [klein] on Fal.ai The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former ...
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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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Open-source image generator startup Black Forest Labs raises $300M

Black Forest Labs Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models optimized for image generation tasks, has raised $300 million in funding. Salesforce Ventures and prominent venture ...
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Docker’s Open-Source Images Accelerate Secure AI Development: Anaconda CEO

Last week’s Docker announcement that it would make more than 1,000 of its Docker Hardened Images free and open-source software, combined with Anaconda’s AI Catalyst and other development technologies, ...
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Pinterest CEO touts open source AI: ‘tremendous performance’ with reduced costs

On an earnings call on Tuesday, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready highlighted the promise of open source AI models in helping the company keep its costs down as it expands the use cases for visual AI. The ...