#image-generation
- Ideogram 4.0 Launches as Open-Weight 9.3B Text-to-Image Model with Native 2K Resolution Ideogram image
- Meta launches Muse Image and previews Muse Video from Meta Superintelligence Labs Meta AI image
- Midjourney V8.1 Goes GA with 3× Faster HD Mode and Restored Image Prompts Midjourney image
- Flow-OPD: On-Policy Distillation Pushes GenEval +29 Points on Stable Diffusion 3.5 research
- Qwen-Image-2.0: Unified Image Generation and Editing at 2K Resolution, Top-1 on AI Arena Alibaba research
- Asymmetric Flow Models: SOTA 1.57 FID on ImageNet via Rank-Asymmetric Velocity Parameterization Stanford University research
- Lance: 3B Unified Multimodal Model for Understanding, Generation, and Editing (314 HF upvotes) ByteDance Research research
- Midjourney V8.1 Becomes Default Model: Native 2K Output and 4–5× Speed Boost Midjourney image
- Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX.2 with Multi-Reference Conditioning and 4MP Output Black Forest Labs image
- Krea Releases Krea 2 Raw and Turbo Open Weights: 12B DiT Image Model Generating in 2 Seconds Krea image
- ByteDance Announces Seedream 5.0 Pro: Image Generation with Built-In Online Search and Deep Reasoning ByteDance image
- Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-3.0 image generation model Alibaba / Qwen image
- LLaDA-Image: building strong image generators with fully open training recipes inclusionAI (Ant Group) research
- SenseNova-U1.5: native unified visual intelligence without encoders or VAEs SenseTime research
- InterleaveThinker: RL Planner+Critic Pipeline for Interleaved Text-and-Image Generation CUHK Multimedia Lab research
- Midjourney V8.1 Becomes Platform Default, Replaces V7 with 2K Native Resolution Midjourney image
- Boogu-Image-0.1: Strong Open-Source 10B Diffusion Transformer for Text-to-Image and Editing Boogu Project research
- Mage-Flow: An Efficient Native-Resolution Foundation Model for Image Generation and Editing Microsoft Research research
- Self-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Flow Matching Models without Teacher research
- OpenAI Retires DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 APIs on May 12 OpenAI image
- OpenAI DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 APIs Shut Down on May 12 OpenAI image
- Yandex Improves Alice AI ART: Russian Text in Generated Images 3x More Accurate Yandex image
- InterleaveThinker: RL Framework for Agentic Text-and-Image Interleaved Generation research
- DanceOPD: On-Policy Generative Field Distillation for Unified Image Generation ByteDance Seed research
- Qwen-Image-Agent: Agentic Context Building to Bridge the Prompt Underspecification Gap in T2I Qwen (Alibaba) research
- Elon Musk Declares Grok Imagine Development Complete xAI tools
- Google shuts down Imagen 4 image generation API, routes users to Gemini image model Google tools
- Sber unveils Kandinsky 6.0 Image — flagship image generation model Sber image
- xAI ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 with region-level editing and multi-image reference input xAI image
- Midjourney Launches Draft Mode for V8.1 with 24-Image Exploration Grid Midjourney image
- Mage-Flow: An Efficient Native-Resolution Foundation Model for Image Generation and Editing Microsoft research
- Midjourney releases V8.2 as new default image model Midjourney image
- Krea connects to ChatGPT for image and video generation inside conversations Krea tools
- Pydantic AI 2.41 adds Codex subscription auth and a direct image generation API Pydantic tools
- Qwen-Image-2.1 gets a prompt-enhancer companion Alibaba (Qwen) image
- Canva releases Craft, its first in-house image generation model Canva image
- Sber Launches Giga-Art AI Art Festival Using Kandinsky 6.0 Sber industry