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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Nano Banana is a cutting-edge AI image creation tool developed by Google and officially launched on August 26, 2025. It's built on the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image API, which allows users to generate and ...

China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video. The ...

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 ...