New Apple model combines vision understanding and image generation with impressive results

Manzano combines visual understanding and text-to-image generation, while significantly reducing performance or quality trade-offs.
TechCrunch

‘Visual’ AI models might not see anything at all

The latest round of language models, like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro, are touted as “multimodal,” able to understand images and audio as well as text. But a new study makes clear that they don’t really ...
VentureBeat

New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use.
NPR

AI met fruit fly, and a better brain model emerged

Scientists have created a virtual brain network that can predict the behavior of individual neurons in a living brain. The model is based on a fruit fly's visual system, and it offers scientists a way ...