VentureBeat

LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find

Large Language Models (LLMs), often recognized as AI systems trained on vast amounts of data to efficiently predict the next part of a word, are now being viewed from a different perspective. A recent ...
GIGAZINE

Apple announces PICO, an AI image compression codec that reduces image size by up to one-third while maintaining the same image quality.

Apple has announced PICO, an image compression codec that uses machine learning. Compared to AV1, AV2, VVC, ECM, and JPEG-AI, PICO can produce images of the same quality with up to one-third the data ...

In 1996, PNG developers released a new image format that kept web graphics sharp and compact

A quiet innovation from 1996, Portable Network Graphics (PNG), revolutionized early web design. This open-source format ...
Ars Technica

Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large ...
Lifehacker

This App Quickly Shrinks Any Image Without Reducing Quality

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. One thing I love about this application is how it supports a variety of macOS features. There is support for Apple ...