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Phonon 31MAUDIO · VOICEOCT 22, 2026
Turn English text into natural speech that starts playing right away
humanizerFIELD NOTEOCT 22, 2026
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FLUX 3 Image KleinIMAGE · EDITOCT 19, 2026
Edit and combine your photos into one image, placing each element where you choose
MOSS-Image-SFTIMAGE · GENERATIONOCT 19, 2026
Generate images with readable text and a layout you control
Fish Audio Drama 3AUDIO · VOICEOCT 15, 2026
Turns a written scene into acted, multi-voice speech and redoes a take when you give it a note
MiniCPM-V-4.7-1BLLM · TEXTOCT 15, 2026
Answers questions about your photos, screenshots and videos, and describes a clip moment by moment
Youtu-Parsing-OmniAUDIO · VOICEOCT 12, 2026
Turns document pages, charts, flowcharts, audio and video into one structured data file
Iris-3BIMAGE · GENERATIONOCT 12, 2026
Paints images pixel by pixel from a prompt, and the same model also estimates depth and restores blurry photos
Qwen-Image-2.1 Outfit SwapIMAGE · EDITOCT 8, 2026
Dresses the person in your photo in the outfit from a second photo and leaves the face, pose and background untouched
d1-3BFIELD NOTEOCT 8, 2026
Answers your typed questions about a live camera frame, a drawing or a message, fast enough to play games with
LTX-2.5 Alpha GenVIDEO · MOTIONOCT 5, 2026
Cuts the main subject out of a video and gives you a matte for every frame
ClefFIELD NOTEOCT 5, 2026
Answers yes/no, multiple-choice and rating questions you write about a photo or text, with odds for every option
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130 issues published · Mon & Thu
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Screen
New open-source releases are screened before anything is written. Some candidates are rejected and never written up.
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Install and run
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