diffusion
Posts tagged “diffusion”.
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AI Brief, 21 September 2026: an image model that keeps its alpha channel, and gives up its licence
Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1 on Saturday with a genuinely four-channel VAE, and moved it off Apache-2.0 onto a research licence that forbids commercial use. It ships with no benchmark table anywhere in the repository. And Artificial Analysis quietly pinned its Elo scale to a mid-table open-weights model, moving 145 index scores.
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AI Brief, 6 September 2026: a diffusion model that edits its own length
Ant Group released LLaDA2.2-mini, an Apache-2.0 diffusion language model with DELETE and INSERT control tokens, and its own card shows eight of eleven general benchmarks falling while the headline average rises. OpenAI confirmed the wiki incident and committed to a misalignment reporting framework with a stated clock on it.