#image generation
8 stories taggedimage generation.

Apple's AI Model Can Write Text and Draw Pictures at the Same Time, Using One Engine
A new research model from Apple blends language and image generation into a single, unified system. Here is why that matters for the next generation of AI assistants.

Google's Gemini app hits one billion monthly users, catching up with ChatGPT
Google's AI assistant has crossed a threshold that only 13 other Google products have ever reached. Here's what the numbers actually tell us.

Hugging Face Is Hosting Tools Used to Make Nonconsensual Intimate Images, Report Finds
A European research nonprofit tested the platform's most popular image-editing tools and found most of them would strip clothing from photos of women with a single, plain-language request.

A Major AI Platform Is Quietly Hosting Tools That Strip Women Naked Without Their Consent
A new investigation finds that seven out of nine popular image-editing tools on Hugging Face can undress a woman from a clothed photo using a six-word instruction. Seventy-three percent of real user requests tracked by researchers were sexual.

Run AI Image Models on a Normal GPU: Hugging Face Brings 4-Bit Diffusion to the Masses
A new integration called Nunchaku Lite lets image-generating AI run on consumer graphics cards with half the memory and 30% faster speeds, no specialist setup required.

NVIDIA and Hugging Face team up to make training giant image and video AI models far easier
A new open-source tool lets developers fine-tune some of the largest image and video generators available, on hardware ranging from a single machine to hundreds of chips, with no complicated file conversions.

One Layer Does the Job: Apple Research Finds a Smarter Way to Teach AI to Generate Images
A new technique from Apple ML Research lets image-generating AI borrow knowledge from a separate visual understanding model, using just a single adapted layer. The result: sharper, more accurate pictures without the usual trade-offs.

Meta Pulls AI Image Feature That Used Your Instagram Photos Without Asking
Meta launched a tool letting anyone generate AI pictures by tagging public Instagram accounts. After a wave of criticism over abuse risks, it pulled the feature within days.