AI Image Generators
AI image generators create pictures from a text prompt: Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, FLUX, DALL-E and Nano Banana turn a description into an illustration, photo or artwork in seconds. The quality now rivals professional design work, while courts sort out copyright. Here is all our coverage of image generation: model releases, comparisons, pricing and legal battles.
GridAI: Drones from a Chinese Startup Fly Under the Forest Canopy Without GNSS or Heavy Compute
Chinese startup GridAI unveiled an "intelligent brain" for drones. It trains on dozens of images instead of tens of thousands and lets drones fly under the forest…
FineServe: A Dataset of Real-World LLM Serving Workloads From a Global Marketplace
Researchers have posted FineServe to arXiv: an open dataset of real LLM serving workloads from a global commercial marketplace, plus a workload generator.
Nunchaku Lite: 4-bit Image Generation in Diffusers — Up to 50% Less VRAM
Hugging Face has integrated Nunchaku Lite 4-bit inference directly into Diffusers: up to 50% less VRAM and image generation about 30% faster, with a single line of…
Physical AI and Robotics: The Robot Report on the State of Embodied AI
Chinese Robots Lack a 'Brain' and Data: Embodied AI's Biggest Challenge at WAIC 2026
Why Meta's AI Moderation Fails to Protect Users: The Muse Image Scandal
Apple Foundation Models SDK for Python: Local Apple Intelligence Inside the Hermes Agent
Medtronic launches Touch Surgery AI platform for the operating room and digital surgery
Medtronic is bringing a computing AI platform built on its Touch Surgery ecosystem into the operating room, linking surgical prep, execution and review into a…
Nano Banana Pro for Product Cards: What Works and What Doesn't After Hundreds of Generations
A Habr author spent several months testing image generation in Nano Banana Pro as a replacement for studio shoots of product cards and social media visuals, and…
Stanislav Lvovskiy: AI is the most important cultural event since the invention of writing
Google Research Releases TabFM — Foundation Model for Tabular Data with Zero-Shot
Google Released Nano Banana 2 Lite — Fastest and Cheapest Image Generator
Meta Hired Contractors to Pose as Teens and Test ChatGPT
Kling AI from China Raised $2 Billion for AI Video Generation Development
Chinese startup Kling AI, spun out from Kuaishou Technology, raised its first funding tranche of $2 billion to expand operations in the AI video field.
China Telecom becomes shareholder in AI content-security startup Zhongke Ruijian
China Telecom became a new shareholder in Chinese startup Zhongke Ruijian (中科睿鉴), which specializes in AI content security.