Nano Banana 2 is Google's newest version of its Gemini AI image generator, with increased speed and real-time sourcing.

Black Forest Labs Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models optimized for image generation tasks, has raised $300 million in funding. Salesforce Ventures and prominent venture ...

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, perhaps best known in the West for its hit realistic AI video model Hailuo, has released its latest large language model, MiniMax-M1 — and in great news for enterprises and ...

Alibaba has released a new open-source image generation model called Qwen-Image that sets itself apart by accurately rendering complex and multilingual text within images, a task where many other AI ...

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 ...

When Google released its newest AI image model Nano Banana Pro (aka Gemini 3 Pro Image) in November, it reset expectations for the entire field. For the first time, uses of an image model could use ...

AI-generated images now headline billboards, fill product catalogues, and slip into everyday slide decks—a leap from party ...

It seems that chips dominance isn’t enough for Nvidia. The tech giant wants its products to be present at every level of the AI development ecosystem, and its got its eyes on open-source AI models.

Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) unveiled its open source large language model called Qwen3-Omni, which can process text, images, audio, and video. The model can process text, images, audio, and video but delivers ...

The company is positioning it as especially good for enterprise use. The company is positioning it as especially good for enterprise use. is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for ...