From APIs to Architectures: The Visual AI Pulse — Have We Just Found a Universal Backbone?

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New ABCD Pre-training Shows Potential as Foundation for Both Image and Video Generation

Researchers have proposed ABCD architecture, which unifies image and video generation through

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Noise-Based Preconditioning Alone Can Rescue Ancient Architectures

A foundational new paper proves that applying noise-based preconditioning across timesteps alone can copy modern performance in diffusion models, a principle that significantly reduces the architectural bloat found in many new models.