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Release-by-release coverage of the AI creation stack: video, image, music, voice, design and code generation tools.

Release-by-release coverage of the AI creation stack: video, image, music, voice, design and code generation tools.

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Press start: How controllers shaped video game design—and where interfaces may go next
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Press start: How controllers shaped video game design—and where interfaces may go next

LTX 2.0 is Now Available on fal
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LTX 2.0 is Now Available on fal

We’re thrilled to announce that LTX 2.0 is now live on fal on day 0.LTX 2.0 brings next-level text-to-video and image-to-video generation,…

Software is culture
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Software is culture

Issue no.14: Software is culture
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Issue no.14: Software is culture

The new business case for design systems
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The new business case for design systems

Show don't tell: Embed Make prototypes everywhere you work in Figma
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Show don't tell: Embed Make prototypes everywhere you work in Figma

Think outside of the box—with Claude and FigJam
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Think outside of the box—with Claude and FigJam

Chasing 6+ TB/s: an MXFP8 quantizer on Blackwell
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Chasing 6+ TB/s: an MXFP8 quantizer on Blackwell

We built an MXFP8 quantizer in CuTeDSL that hits 6+ TB/s on B200. The kernel writes scale factors directly into the packed layout that Blackwell's block-sc…

Grok Imagine is Now Available on fal
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Grok Imagine is Now Available on fal

We’re excited to introduce Grok Imagine, a new multimodal release that brings five new model endpoints to a single creative stack, covering both generati…

Crafting Efficient Kernels with Epilogue Fusion
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Crafting Efficient Kernels with Epilogue Fusion

In many ML workloads, a GEMM is followed by small operations like bias, activation, scaling, or type conversion. These ops are cheap in math, but they often cos…

For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma
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For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma

Kling 3.0 is Now Available on fal
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Kling 3.0 is Now Available on fal

We're pleased to announce the release of Kling 3.0, now available on fal from day zero. Kling 3.0 represents a new state-of-the-art generation stack for video a…

Kling 3.0 Prompting Guide
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Kling 3.0 Prompting Guide

Kling 3.0 is designed to understand cinematic intent, not just visual descriptions. The model performs best when prompts are written like directions to a scene …

Instruction-level control with Inline Elementwise ASM in Triton
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Instruction-level control with Inline Elementwise ASM in Triton

Triton is a DSL (Domain-Specific Language) which makes it deceptively easy to write fast GPU kernels in Python since it abstracts all the nuances of writing a p…

Why demand for designers is on the rise
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Why demand for designers is on the rise

Stability AI Joins the Tech Coalition
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Stability AI Joins the Tech Coalition

We’re pleased to share that Stability AI has joined the Tech Coalition, a global alliance of leading technology companies working together to combat online chil…

State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle
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State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle

V8 Rating Party!
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V8 Rating Party!

Hi everyone! We're putting the finishing touches on V8 and need your help!Please visit midjourney.com/rank-v8 and help us rate images.Directions:You&#x2019…

V8 Rating Party Updates
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V8 Rating Party Updates

Hey everyone.We'll be doing 2 more rating parties this week and then will be releasing V8 shortly afterWe would still love your help rating more images in …

The future of design is code and canvas
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The future of design is code and canvas

V8 Rating Party! (Round 2)
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V8 Rating Party! (Round 2)

Hi everyone! We're putting the finishing touches on V8 and need your help!Please visit midjourney.com/rank-v8 and help us rate images.This rating party is …

Recraft V4: image generation with design taste
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Recraft V4: image generation with design taste

Recraft V4 generates art-directed images — and actual editable SVGs — with strong composition, accurate text rendering, and what the Recraft team calls "design …

Redefining impact as a data scientist
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Redefining impact as a data scientist

V8 Rating Party - Round 3
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V8 Rating Party - Round 3

Hi everyone! We’re now in ROUND 3 of the V8 image rating party!The previous round was more focused on learning what's 'bad' and now round …

V8 Rating Party - FINAL ROUND
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V8 Rating Party - FINAL ROUND

Hi everyone! We're now in the FINAL ROUND of the V8 image rating party.This is the final round and means we're approaching V8 launch. This round will …

Ulysses Unbound: Experiments in Communication–Computation Overlap
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Ulysses Unbound: Experiments in Communication–Computation Overlap

As video diffusion models scale, sequence lengths get uncomfortably large. A practical answer is context parallelism, and within that family, Ulysses is the can…

How to prompt Seedream 5.0
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How to prompt Seedream 5.0

Seedream 5.0 brings multi-step reasoning, example-based editing, and deep domain knowledge to image generation. Here's what you should know.…

Seedream 5.0 Lite Prompting Guide
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Seedream 5.0 Lite Prompting Guide

Seedream 5.0 Lite dropped in February 2026 and it's a different beast from what we've been used to. Every single image on this page was generated with…

Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma
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Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma

Personalization and Web Updates
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Personalization and Web Updates

Hi everyone, we've got a couple of small announcements today:1) We've got a new personalization interface on webThis lets you make personalization pro…