A pint of refreshing beer sits on a log in a dense German forest. The word “Images” is etched on the side of the beer glass. Beams of sunlight shines though the trees onto hiking trail. ideogram.ai

“Introducing *Transfusion* – a unified approach for training models that can generate both text and images. 

FLUX

“Flux 1 now available on Krea AI and it’s free 😊 

“I trained a LoRa with FLUX on a few photos of me and brought it to life with Runway. This image AND video is 100% AI-generated. Here’s a couple more wild examples and a full tutorial for how you can do it yourself (it’s addicting): 

“xAI’s newest AI model, Grok-2, is now available in beta for Premium users on X It even generates “unhinged” images with FLUX 1 What’s really impressive here is the speed of improvement at xAI — achieving SOTA status in just over a year 

“Flux Schnell in the latest DiffusionKit with MLX is 30% faster and uses less RAM! pip install -U diffusionkit Generating some high quality images in < a minute on my 32GB M1 max laptop: 

[AINews] Rombach et al: FLUX.1 [pro|dev|schnell], $31m seed for Black Forest Labs • Buttondown

Google (Imagen)

Google’s upgraded AI image generator is now available – The Verge

MidJourney

“The Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone. We’re also temporarily turning on free trials to let you check it out. Have fun! 

“Here are all of my Midjourney personalization codes These have been tuned on ~3800 image ratings They tend to push things towards a more analog film look. To use, just add them to the end of your prompt (left) MJ default (right) with –p –p 9zrkar2 –p es868ts –p yypkxil 

Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone | Hacker News

“Midjourney released a new unified web-based AI image editor. It combines several of the advanced image generation features to seamlessly modify and extend generated images 

“Midjourney opened its web-based AI image editor and new tools to everyone with free trials for new users to test it out. No more Discord, finally. If you for some reason have not tried Midjourney yet, this is your chance! 

Midjourney releases new unified AI image editor on the web | VentureBeat 

“5 midjourney images + Kling 

Stability AI

“Delighted to announce the public open source release of #StableDiffusion! Please see our release post and retweet! 

Other Image News

The “Reimagine” feature on Google’s new Pixel 9 lineup is incredible. It’s so impressive that testing it has left me feeling uneasy on multiple occasions.

With a simple prompt, you can add things to photos that were never there. And the company’s Gemini AI makes it look astonishingly realistic. This all happens right from the phone’s default photo editor app. In about five seconds.

“Introducing Ideogram 2.0 — our most advanced text-to-image model, now available to all users for free. Today’s milestone launch also includes the release of the Ideogram iOS app, the beta version of the Ideogram API, and Ideogram Search. Here’s what’s new… 🧵 

“I’ve been beta-testing Ideogram 2.0 for the past couple of days. I have to say: it’s REALLY good at generating text, and a lot better at realism. This is the new gold standard for anyone who uses AI image generation for thumbnails, posters, newsletter graphics, memes, etc. 

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