On images

Google's new image model, known everywhere as Nano Banana, keeps a person looking like themselves across edits and scenes. For AI storytelling, identity preservation matters more than image quality.

GPT-4o's image generation turned the internet into Studio Ghibli for a week. When every style is one prompt away, the scarce thing is judgment.

Two papers this week, GLIDE and latent diffusion, make text-to-image generation with diffusion models look practical. What denoising actually learns, and why it beats the adversarial game.