#text-to-image
- Midjourney releases V8.1 with 4-5x faster rendering and cheaper HD mode Midjourney image
- 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
- Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3, a multimodal model generating video with synced audio Black Forest Labs video
- OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5 with Sketch input and two new API image models OpenAI image
- Krea 2: First Foundation Image Model from Krea for Style Transfer and Aesthetic Control Krea AI image
- 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
- Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite: 4-Second Images at $0.034 per 1,000 Google DeepMind image
- MrFlow: Training-Free 10-25x Speedup for Flow-Matching Text-to-Image Models Beihang University research
- ByteDance Launches Seedream 5.0 Pro with Professional Layer Editing and Multilingual Text Rendering ByteDance / Seed image
- Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-3.0 image generation model Alibaba / Qwen image
- Runway launches Media Router, an automatic model-selection API for generative media Runway tools
- Google launches Pics, a Nano Banana-powered image editor for Workspace Google image
- Microsoft AI ships MAI-Image-2.6 and a faster Flash variant in Foundry public preview Microsoft AI image
- Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework Matches 11.9B FLUX Model Huazhong University of Science and Technology 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
- Google Launches Pics: AI Image Generation and Design App for Google Workspace Google image
- Yandex Improves Alice AI ART: Russian Text in Generated Images 3x More Accurate Yandex image
- Qwen-Image-Agent: Agentic Context Building to Bridge the Prompt Underspecification Gap in T2I Qwen (Alibaba) research
- Meta Launches Muse Image Generator With Opt-Out Use of Public Instagram Photos Meta AI image
- Adobe to give over $4bn in free Firefly and Express access to Saudi Arabia Adobe industry
- Google opens Dreambeans generative story feed to all US accounts Google image
- Midjourney Launches Draft Mode for V8.1 with 24-Image Exploration Grid Midjourney image
- Scaling Properties of Text Conditioning in Visual Generation ByteDance Seed research
- GenFirst: generation-first training makes end-to-end latent generative models stable ByteDance Seed research
- OpenAI's DALL-E GPT in ChatGPT shuts down on August 30, ending the original ChatGPT image tool OpenAI image
- Meta's agentic image model Muse Image goes live on fal for developers Meta image