New AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches

Researchers developed a hybrid AI approach that can generate realistic images with the same or better quality than state-of-the-art diffusion models, but that runs about nine times faster and uses fewer computational resources. The tool uses an autoregressive model to quickly capture the big picture and then a small diffusion model to refine the details of the image.

source https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250320145449.htm