New Year's AI surprise: Fal releases its own version of Flux 2 image generator that's 10x cheaper and 6x more efficient

Fal's new model FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo is a distilled, ultra-fast image generation model that’s already outperforming many of its ...

Open source Qwen-Image-2512 launches to compete with Google's Nano Banana Pro in high quality AI image generation

Alibaba’s Qwen team of AI researchers — already having a banner year with numerous powerful open source AI model releases — ...
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API Platform Unkey Ditches Serverless After Performance Struggles

Developer Platform Unkey has written about rebuilding its entire API authentication service from the ground up, moving from ...
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ChatGPT's Latest AI Image Generator Is Its Best Yet, But Nano Banana Pro Is Still Better

With more realistic images than before, GPT Image 1.5 fares reasonably well against Google's Nano Banana Pro in my testing.
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Cloudflare Open Sources tokio‑quiche, Promising Easier QUIC and HTTP/3 in Rust

Cloudflare has open-sourced tokio-quiche, an asynchronous QUIC and HTTP/3 Rust library that wraps its battle-tested quiche ...
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What Is Zone 2 Cardio, and How Do I Actually Do It?

A healthy dose of cardio is an important part of your exercise routine, and for a lot of us, "zone 2" cardio is going to make up a big chunk of that. Low-intensity cardio—sometimes called LISS or ...