A new Apple Silicon fork of Automatic1111 drops local Stable Diffusion render times from 8 to 10 seconds to 3 to 7 seconds on an M3 Pro, using native Metal kernels while keeping the standard interface.
Adobe shipped its largest Creative Cloud AI update of the year on June 15, 2026, with new tools across Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and Illustrator.
Midjourney V8.1 Alpha brings 3x faster HD mode at 3x lower cost, 50% faster standard generation, restored image prompts, and stable moodboard references.
xAI has rolled out two new generation modes for Grok Imagine on the web, giving users direct control over the tradeoff between image detail and generation speed. A third Pro mode with 1080p output is confirmed for later this month.
Adobe and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to build next-gen Firefly models on CUDA-X and Cosmos, plus a 3D digital twin solution now in public beta.