ComfyUI raised $30M at a $500M valuation, reflecting surging demand for tools that give creators fine-grained control over AI image, video, and audio output.

Anthropic released Claude Design, a new product enabling users to quickly create visual content directly within the Claude AI platform.

Microsoft's new MAI-Image-2-Efficient model cuts image generation costs by 41%, targeting high-volume commercial use cases like product shots and marketing assets.

Luma AI's Uni-1 uses autoregressive architecture to beat Google Nano Banana 2 and OpenAI GPT Image 1.5 on reasoning benchmarks while cutting 2K resolution pricing by up to 30%.

Google unveiled Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), its next-generation AI image model featuring up to 4K resolution, improved character consistency, and faster generation speeds, now set as the default across Gemini apps and Google Search.