Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades

Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads — but most don’t convert that spike into revenue.

Microsoft launches MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a cheaper and faster AI image model

How Microsoft shipped a production-optimized image model in under a month. The speed of this release deserves attention. MAI-Image-2 itself only debuted on MAI Playground on March ...
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Meta’s new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D

Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D, introducing enhanced object recognition and ...
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Adobe releases new Firefly image generation models and a redesigned Firefly web app

Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors, and a redesigned web app that houses all its AI models, plus some ...
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Adobe Firefly now generates AI images with OpenAI, Google, and Flux models - how to access them

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Adobe Firefly Image 5 brings support for layers, will let creators make custom models

Adobe said on Tuesday that it is launching the latest iteration of its image generation model, Firefly Image 5. The company is also adding more features to the Firefly website, support for more ...
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Google's upgraded Nano Banana Pro AI image model hailed as 'absolutely bonkers' for enterprises and users

Infographics rendered without a single spelling error. Complex diagrams one-shotted from paragraph prompts. Logos restored from fragments. And visual outputs so sharp ...