Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at London’s High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models.
Midjourney launched its much anticipated AI video generation model, V1, on Wednesday and laid out a roadmap for its future releases.
The studios are seeking monetary damages, a jury trial, and an order barring Midjourney from further copyright infringement.
After exploring may of the possibilities on the RunPod platform, I started to explore other providers. Vast.Ai offers RTX4090 for under $0.49 per hour which means that its 20 cents cheaper than using it on RunPod. So as my first experiment I decided to see if I can get Flux LoRA trained using AI-Toolkit UI. I have found which of their templates would be best suited and in this post are the steps to get Ai-Toolkit UI working on Vast.AiFirst of all make an account on Vast.Ai and load up some credi
Recraft, the startup behind a mysterious image model that beat OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney on a respected industry benchmark last year, has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Accel, it exclusively told TechCrunch.  Other investors in the round include Khosla Ventures and Madrona. Based in San Francisco, Recraft previously raised a $12 […]
A new model in the AI world has been release just two days ago. It is called F-Lite AI which has been released by Freepik and Fal, there is actually two of them F-lite and F-Lite-Texture; they have produced these as open source models but I assume that Lite means there is a Pro model that is not open source.There is already a Git Repo available for ComfyUI node, that you need to install and then you can use there workflows included. The cool thing is that you just need to run the node and it wil
Inspired by the beautiful Ai-Toolkit UI, I wanted to try out this clean user interface by training a LoRA based on the beautiful female from the India aka Desi Babes. The process is quite simple, you gather a selection of images of the internet, Instagram is a good place to start. The selection criteria was straight forward just look into the Bollywood actresses and models.I downloaded and sources about 300+ images and then shortlisted a variety of poses and looks, I narrowed it down to a traini
There are plenty of Upscalers available in the open source space and in this post we explore AuraSR which is released by Fal-AI which has been incorporated into ComfyUI using the custom node AuraSR-ComfyUI. This upscaler is a GAN-based Super-Resolution for real-world images, a variation of the GigaGAN paper for image-conditioned upscaling.It has two versions: first version has some artefact issue when upscaling JPEG files but version two addresses that. I found that using the version one with De
AI-toolkit is a powerful interface for training your own LoRA and provides lot of flexibility yet advanced functionality if you wish to explore it. In the past posts I have shared how to run this AI-Toolkit using its command line interface as shared in In Depth Tutorial using Ostris AI-toolkit on RunPod. But now a new Web Based UI has been released by the author that provides a wonderful user experience when you want to train your LoRA. You can create and setup multiple data sets which can then
ChatGPT recently allowed the ability for all users to take a photo they have and convert it into Studio Ghibli style aesthetics. It works well but quite slow with free plan but paid version is faster. I’m sure many of the people (tech savvy) have been wondering how I can do this. Well its quite easy using Image to Image processing in ComfyUI. You can use a fast/turbo SDXL (Stable Diffusion XL) model with a Studio Ghibli LoRA to generate the desired result.I found a workflow on my computer
Midjourney, one of the first AI-based image generators on the web, has released its first new AI image model in nearly a year. Dubbed V7, the model began rolling out in alpha around midnight EST on Thursday, comes a week after OpenAI debuted a new image generator in ChatGPT that quickly went viral for its […]
I had seen some interesting images online that peaked my interest. A few people have taken upon them to use old Game Boy device with an attachment Camera and started taking pictures with it. There is GameBoyCameraMan on instagram that has a pretty decent following on Instagram and lots of intriguing images.I wanted to see if this could be done in ComfyUI and managed to recreate the same affect with Claude AI as my development engineer and some elbow grease the node is created.The original resolu
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Chinese startup DeepSeek claims its AI models can match the performance of those made by OpenAI and Meta — but at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek is shaking up the AI industry with cost-efficient large-language models it claims can perform just as well as rivals from giants like OpenAI and Meta. The Chinese startup says its flagship R1 reasoning model is capable of achieving “performance comparable” to OpenAI’s o1 equivalent, while the n
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge iOS 18.3 is here, and it’s bringing changes to AI notification summaries on your iPhone. In iOS 18.3’s release notes, Apple says it has temporarily disabled notification summaries for news and entertainment apps.The change, which was first spotted in the iOS 18.3 beta, comes after the BBC called out the feature for incorrectly summarizing one of its headlines. If you opt-in to the feature, Apple will notify you once it becomes
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is widely launching the ability for its AI chatbot to “remember” certain details about you, such as your dietary preferences or your interests, the company said in a blog post on Monday. It will then use your past conversations, in addition to details from Facebook and Instagram accounts, to provide more relevant recommendations.Meta first started rolling out a memory feature for its AI chatbot last year, but now it will be a
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After surging to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US, DeepSeek’s AI Assistant is now restricting new user sign-ups. According to an incident report page, registrations are being temporarily limited “due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services,” though it’s unclear how these limitations are being applied.“Existing users can log in as usual,” DeepSeek said in its update. “Thanks for your understanding and support.”
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A chatbot made by Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has rocketed to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US this week, dethroning OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app. The eponymous AI assistant is powered by DeepSeek’s open-source models, which the company says can be trained at a fraction of the cost using far fewer chips than the world’s leading models. The claim has riled financial markets, with Nvidia
Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 68, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re staying warm and sane, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Kieran Culkin and insomnia and the eBay for fancy startup stuff, finally watching The Wild Robot, thinking a lot about my shopping habits while watching The Mega-Brands Tha
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images “All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.”Rarely does a one-liner so perfectly capture the state of the moment. Here, you have Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saying he’s “not in the details” about Stargate, the supposedly multi-hundred-billion AI infrastructure project driven by his marquee investment, OpenAI.Nadella not being read in on the nebulous details of Stargate says a lot about how much Microsoft and OpenAI have drif
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple is making an executive change to try and improve its AI efforts and Siri. Kim Vorrath, who recently helped get the Vision Pro software out the door and has been at Apple for 36 years, has been brought over to Apple’s artificial intelligence and machine learning division and will serve as a “top deputy” to AI boss John Giannandrea, Bloomberg reports.The company made a big splash about its AI / Apple Intelligence efforts at WWDC last