After Nano Banana Pro: China’s AI Image Models Are Closing The Gap

Can AI image models preserve identity across edits, follow complex instructions, and combine existing assets without visual ...
The Next Web

Researchers claim this AI model achieves better compression rates than PNGs

Image compression has been one of the constantly evolving challenges in computer science. Programers and researchers are always trying to improve current standards or create new ones to get better ...
VentureBeat

Black Forest Labs launches Flux.2 AI image models to challenge Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney

It's not just Google's Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. No, today the German AI startup ...
Digital Trends

Google uses artificial intelligence to develop smart image compression

Artificial intelligence could just be the answer to discovering the best method for compressing images, at least according to a recent Google study. Image compression is an essential piece of the ...
Ars Technica

Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...
ZDNet

You can now try Microsoft's new in-house AI image generator model - here's how

Microsoft's new AI image model is available to test. It's in Bing Image Creator, Bing mobile app, and Bing search bar. You can test it against OpenAI's image models. Ever use Microsoft Copilot or Bing ...
EDN

Image compression overview

Image compression is an essential technique for efficient transmission and storage of images. The demands for transmission and storage of multimedia data are increasing exponentially. A gray scale ...