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.
Baidu, Tsinghua and Renmin Open-Source LoopVL, Teaching a Loop Transformer to See
Baidu, Tsinghua University and Renmin University's Gaoling School have open-sourced LoopVL, a vision-language model built on a Loop Transformer with shared weights.
WorldMemBench Tests Whether World Models Remember Rooms and Events
The WorldMemBench benchmark scores world-model memory on two axes: whether previously seen scenes persist, and whether events keep progressing while the camera…
ACEdit Teaches Image Editors to Train on Their Own Mistakes Without Degrading
ACEdit applies Self-Forcing to image editing: the model learns from its own outputs, while a teacher sees the original image and a composite instruction.
Groq Launches Meta Muse Spark Open: 816B Parameters and 350+ Tokens/s
Moonshot releases Kimi Vendor Verifier: 6 tests for checking K2.6 providers
FineSplat: Fine-Grained Patches and Dual Grouping for Detailed View Synthesis
VAST Open-Sources a World Model: Anime Version of Flash Step Runs in Real Time
Kimi K3.1 Pro climbs to 4th place on the AA Index with 55 points and a leap in agentic tasks
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: +11 points over K3, 67% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 vs 13%, and prices a third lower. Once weights are published, it will be the best…
Alibaba DAMO Releases RynnUnify: A 16B Model That Plans in Video and Drives a Robot
The 16B-parameter RynnUnify combines scene understanding, video generation and robot control: 51.5% success on 20 RoboCasa365 tasks and 46.7% on three real-world…
Silent Failures in AI Pipelines: Why a Green Container Status Lies, and How We Cut LLM Costs by 90%
Tsinghua's LoopWAM Tops RoboChallenge Table30 and Goes Open Source
TTR-Compressor Compresses Sequences with Regression and Cuts Visual Tokens by 55.6%
Volcano Engine Opens Seedance 2.5 4K to 20 Studios for Film Projects
Kunlun Wanwei launches Matrix-Game 4.0: a video model that plays in 480p at 60 FPS on a single GPU
Kunlun Wanwei has released Matrix-Game 4.0, a game video model that outputs 480p at 60 FPS on a single consumer GPU. A game engine runs the world; a neural network…
3D Scene Generation: DiT Works in a 3D Latent and Encodes a Scene in 1K Tokens
Researchers move scene diffusion from 2D views into an implicit 3D latent space built on DINOv2, SigLIP2 and DA3. Per the paper's title, a scene fits in roughly 1K…