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Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.

Stable Diffusion 3 — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.

Deedy on X — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)

AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying

Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."

ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma

gemma.cpp — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models.

InvokeAI — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process.

Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.

NixOS-WSL

Texas LinuxFest 2024

TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link

LFNW2024 - Ready or not… — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College

LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted

LINUX Unplugged Membership

ryantm/agenix — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager

Mic92/sops-nix — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops

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