High quality image editing no longer needs closed models We release FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] - an open weights model for proprietary-level image editing performance. Runs on consumer chips. ✓ Open weights available ✓ Best in-class performance ✓ Self-serve commercial licensing

We released some new open weights!

Context is king

New Anthropic Research: Project Vend. We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.

The madlads did it again Kontext is king

I think context engineering is going to stick - unlike "prompt engineering" it has an inferred definition that's much closer to the intended meaning, which is to carefully and skillfully construct the right context to get great results from LLMs

Approximately everyone who uses an AI companion daily today will be wearing glasses by the end of the decade

JEPA is on the rise. Yann LeCun was right.

God we are going to need so much more inference compute. So. Much. More.

Finally - a good video to video model Great for restyling an entire video in a certain way

Earlier this month, we launched the Image Edit Arena. Today, the Image Edit Leaderboard 🏆 goes LIVE, powered by more models and all your community votes. 🏆 In 1st place: GPT-Image-1 by OpenAI 💠 2nd-4th: Flux 1 Kontext Max, Pro & Dev by Black Forest Labs 💠 5th: Gemini 2.0 Flash

"its not just a good idea — its a good thought" - chatgpt

joining Sesame as head of design today! when I first met Brendan Iribe a few months ago, his vision for sesame and his way of talking about design and craft inspired me. felt the same when i met Nate Mitchell. couldn’t be more excited to build with this amazing team.

explore + reinforce is a much better heuristic than explore + exploit

I’ve interviewed a dozen+ PhDs from hedge funds in NYC/Miami looking to leave and join frontier AI companies in the last month Took longer than I expected for the talent exodus but better late than never