Jichengdu at ByteDance developed Flux-Pulid, a face identity customization model built on the FLUX diffusion architecture that implements the PuLID method presented at NeurIPS 2024. The model uses con…
OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup acquired by Stripe for $7 billion on August 16, released three new tools within 72 hours: an Image API supporting 30+ models from eight providers, an analytics dashbo…
Black Forest Labs, the team behind Stable Diffusion and FLUX, is hiring a Product Engineer in Freiburg, Germany, offering €140k–190k/yr. The role involves building web interfaces for the company's gen…
Unsloth, the open-source fine-tuning library, released Unsloth Desktop, a free beta app for macOS, Windows, and Linux that runs and trains LLMs, diffusion models, and audio models locally, directly co…
Prizm, a new AI media generation platform, offers a single API key and prepaid balance for accessing top video, image, and voice models including Google Veo 3.1, Kling, Seedance, Nano Banana, FLUX, an…
A developer released Samudra Manthan, an asymmetric board game set in Hindu mythology, where players compete to claim 10 Glory by churning the Ocean of Milk. The game features AI opponents trained by …
Midjourney's $10 to $120 monthly subscription faces competition from FLUX at $0.03 per image and Google Nano Banana's 20 free daily images, with GLAD-AI-TOR crowd ratings showing FLUX leading at 71% r…
A developer built iTube, a pipeline that turns entire novels into narrated, lip-synced motion videos on a single 16GB GPU using FLUX, Wan2.2, PuLID, MuseTalk, and ComfyUI. The key insight is that audi…
ByteDance launched Seedream 5.0 Pro on July 8, a reasoning image API that builds an internal plan before generating, with a headline feature of layer separation that returns 2 to 20 transparent-PNG fi…
Glad-AI-Tor, a crowd-sourced ranking platform, has launched with 75 AI tools judged by real user verdicts across six arenas: voice, LLMs, image, video, coding, and music. The platform claims no tool c…
Generative AI for spatial content has rapidly evolved from basic 3D asset creation to interactive world models and AI-native CAD between May 2025 and June 2026, driven by releases from Meta, Google De…
OpenMontage, the first open-source agentic video production system, has been released, enabling AI coding assistants to handle research, scripting, asset generation, editing, and final composition fro…
MiniMax released the open-weights MiniMax M3 model on Modular Cloud, featuring a new Sparse Attention operation that achieves up to 15.6x speedup on decode while maintaining a 1 million token context …
Ideogram 4, a 9.3-billion-parameter text-to-image model from a team of former Google Brain researchers, topped the open-weight leaderboard for design quality, winning nearly half of blind typography t…
Modular has introduced a five-stage composable routing system for large language model inference, replacing traditional fixed algorithms like round-robin and consistent hashing. The system, detailed i…
Martin Scorsese, the 83-year-old Oscar-winning director, joined German AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser, becoming the highest-profile filmmaker to embrace generative AI for storyboarding and fi…
Filmmaker Boots Riley publicly criticized Martin Scorsese for endorsing AI startup Black Forest Labs, accusing the 83-year-old director of prioritizing financial gain over industry concerns. Scorsese …
Martin Scorsese has joined Black Forest Labs as an adviser and partner, using the company's FLUX generative AI model to storyboard a scene in a video released by the startup. The Oscar-winning directo…
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has joined AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser and is using its generative AI technology to storyboard his upcoming films. Scorsese said the tools allow him …
Modular has built a new data layer for LLM inference routing that solves the problem of querying cached blocks across hundreds of pods in microseconds. The company's architecture uses a specialized da…