#Image generation

AITencent Hunyuan announced a three-track creative challenge with three winners sharing prizes. Background from GMI Cloud says the Hy Image 3.5 preview is free there for seven days, supporting image generation and editing up to 2K with up to five reference images. The post also points to $1,800 in cash and credits for winners.

AIKling 4.0 is entering early access, with a wider rollout planned for October, and Kling 4.0 Flash opens to Ultra Yearly subscribers on September 28. The update generates videos up to 30 seconds in a single pass, accepts up to 15 reference assets, and supports up to 10 keyframe images. Upcoming features include 10-bit HDR output at 4K and 1080p and video extension up to 2 minutes.

Why it matters: The post specifies concrete capability limits such as 30-second native generation, up to 15 references, and 10 keyframes, which help users judge fit for production workflows.

AIGoogle Research introduced Diffusion Controller, a framework that treats image generation as a continuous control problem rather than separate inference-time guidance and fine-tuning fixes. Its lightweight add-on "steering damper" network keeps the base model frozen and works on black-box or gray-box models, and it outperformed the industry standard on human preference matching. In a Stable Diffusion v1.4 test, the fully unlocked version achieved a 90% win rate over the baseline.

AIThe article presents a four-part prompt structure (action verb, target element, desired result, protection instructions) for AI photo editing, saying it preserves approved work across platforms. It identifies three common failure causes: unmatched light direction, stacked edits in one prompt, and vague visual language. It states that simple skin retouching takes 2-3 minutes versus 15-30 minutes manually.

AIKrea, an AI creative platform, has published a dedicated video page at The post provides only this link, so no features, models, pricing, or capabilities are confirmed.

AIKling AI's blog outlines a structured prompt method for basketball league logos, covering league identity, basketball symbol, style, colours, and composition. It provides six example prompts for professional, modern, youth, retro, minimal, and street styles, and shows how to generate concepts with Kling IMAGE 3.0 from text or reference images.

AIHailuo AI promoted a weekend cartoon post, and a quoted clip by @awesome_visuals, titled "the chef's revenge," was made with MiniMax H3 Max. The post offers no further details on the model's features or performance.

AIKrea published a post linking to presenting an agent-focused product page. The post itself provides no further details on features, models, pricing, or availability.

AIHiggsfield AI published an open-source breakdown of its "Passport Rush" project, including every prompt and asset used. The post links to the project page on higgsfield.ai for readers to explore the materials.

AIAmazon Neuron Science and Reactor collaborated to optimize Rolling Forcing, an autoregressive diffusion video model, for real-time generation on AWS Trainium. The model generates 16 frames per second, the standard video playback rate, meeting latency requirements for streaming video generation.

AILuma Labs has launched a virtual model try-on app that users can access directly through its web platform. The post only links to the app and does not describe its features, models, or pricing.

AIMidjourney is testing fast models on alpha.midjourney.com and has added live previews in the Styles sidebar, showing how the latest prompt looks across liked and featured styles. Its edit model now changes only the selected pixels during inpainting and outpainting, allowing repeated edits without degrading image quality. Tiling with --tile also works better for V8.1/8.2, with seams between tiles now blending invisibly.

AITencent Hunyuan's Hy Image 3.5 preview is now available on GMI Cloud at $0.024 per image. The pricing is reported as 8.8x cheaper than GPT Image 2 and 5.6x cheaper than Nano Banana Pro.

AIMeta AI announced Muse Realtime Avatar and directed readers to its research blog for details. The post itself provides no further technical specifications, features, or availability information.

AIBlack Forest Labs points readers to a dedicated page on its website describing the FLUX 3 action model. The post itself provides no specifics about the model's capabilities, benchmarks, or availability.

AIBlack Forest Labs has published a blog post and downloadable weights for its FLUX 3 Action model, with links to a Hugging Face collection. The post also invites readers to contact the company's robotics team.

AIMicrosoft AI announced that its MAI-Image-2.6 image model can be tried on Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter. The post provides links to both platforms but no further details on capabilities, pricing, or benchmarks.

AIGoogle Labs released six new Google Flow Tools built by creatives across architecture, sound design, and digital content, including Mondo Sónico, CaptionCast, ThumbnailForge, Surface, CollageMotion Pro, and SwissFlow Studio. Each tool targets a specific workflow, such as generating synchronized audio stems, transcribing and styling captions, or producing animated collages from text prompts. Users can try the tools, duplicate and remix them, or build their own by describing a task in Google Flow.

AIComfy Router is now live on the Comfy Developer Platform, giving developers one API to call frontier image, video, 3D, and audio models. Day one models include Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2, Kling, and Black Forest Labs, and the provider for each job is selectable. Requests fail rather than silently switching providers, and inputs and outputs are deleted after 24 hours.

Why it matters: The post shows how one API key and a provider parameter let developers swap routes for media models without rewriting calls, with failed requests reporting the provider.

AITencent has released a preview of its Hy Image 3.5 image generation model, which product teams across Yuanbao, WorkRally, Ima, and other services are helping refine through co-design. Tencent Cloud prices the model at USD 0.024 per 2K output image, and it supports text-to-image and image-to-image generation with up to five reference images. Tencent said an internal blind evaluation found it on par with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro and slightly better than Nano-Banana Pro and Qwen-Image-3.0 Pro.

AITencent Hunyuan has made its Hy Image3.5 preview available on the OnSolo platform, free for two weeks. The model targets short drama character sheets, full-motion video game assets, and keyframes, with characters kept consistent across episodes and edits that refine rather than regenerate images. OnSolo's background post says the preview supports 5 references at 2K resolution and is free for Members during the two-week window.

AITencent Hunyuan's Hy Image3.5 preview is now available in ComfyUI, with a claimed 30% higher win rate in human evaluation than Hy Image3.0. The model handles text-to-image and image-to-image in one model at up to 2K resolution, with multilingual text and small print rendering correctly. It also keeps identity and product features consistent across scene, outfit, and style changes.

AIAlibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1 is now the top open-source model in both the Image Edit Arena and Text-to-Image Arena, according to Arena. In the Image Edit Arena it scored 1367 points, placing #16 overall and just 3 points behind GPT-Image-1.5-high-fidelity at #15.