New Apple model combines vision understanding and image generation with impressive results

Manzano combines visual understanding and text-to-image generation, while significantly reducing performance or quality trade-offs.
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Google Introduces T5Gemma 2: Encoder Decoder Models with Multimodal Inputs via SigLIP and 128K Context

T5Gemma 2 follows the same adaptation idea introduced in T5Gemma, initialize an encoder-decoder model from a decoder-only checkpoint, then adapt with UL2. In the above figure the research team show ...
Computerworld

Microsoft’s new genAI model to power agents in Windows 11

Microsoft is laying the groundwork for Windows 11 to morph into a genAI-driven OS. The company on Monday announced a critical AI technology that will make it possible to run generative AI (genAI) ...
InAVate

Visionary expands 5 series with USB-C encoder and decoder

Visionary has introduced three new wallplate models, including USB-C Bluetooth and Dante integration, debuting at InfoComm 2025. The DuetE5-WP-C wallplate encoder combines USB-C and HDMI inputs into a ...
Ars Technica

Apple Videotoolbox AV1 video encoding is almost too good to be true

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...
IEEE

A Novel Encoder–Decoder Model for Short-Term Multistep Wind Power Prediction

Abstract: Wind power has emerged as a vital renewable energy source. However, its inherent temporal variability and non-stationarity pose significant challenges for accurate forecasting. To solve this ...
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NeoBERT: Modernizing Encoder Models for Enhanced Language Understanding

Encoder models like BERT and RoBERTa have long been cornerstones of natural language processing (NLP), powering tasks such as text classification, retrieval, and toxicity detection. However, while ...