Z.ai's open source GLM-Image beats Google's Nano Banana Pro at complex text rendering, but not aesthetics

Furthermore, Nano Banana Pro still edged out GLM-Image in terms of pure aesthetics — using the OneIG benchmark, Nano Banana 2 ...

Black Forest Labs launches open source Flux.2 [klein] to generate AI images in less than a second

Credit: VentureBeat made with Flux.2 [klein] on Fal.ai The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former ...
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China's Z.AI Releases First Major AI Image Generation Model Trained Without American Chips

Image, trained entirely on Huawei chips, as Beijing moves to block Nvidia H200 imports in a push for AI self-reliance.

Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance with first major model trained on Huawei stack

Zhipu claims GLM-Image achieved industry-leading scores among open-source models for text rendering and Chinese character ...
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Tencent Open-Sources HunyuanImage 3.0, an 80B Multimodal Image Generation Model

Tencent has released and open-sourced HunyuanImage 3.0, an 80-billion-parameter native multimodal image generation model. The company says it is the first open industrial-grade model of its kind, with ...
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Tencent expands AI push with open-source 3D generation tools

BEIJING, March 18 (Reuters) - Tech giant Tencent (0700.HK), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled a suite of new artificial intelligence tools capable of converting text and images into 3D visuals in the ...