I was not expecting so many improvements in this version alone, I'm impressed. I was already using it for 3d printing but now it seems it's getting actually good, makes me wonder how I was able to use the previous version.
I am also impressed by how much they are improving things. It just sucks that they are stuck with the OpenCasacade kernel so making stability improvements are hard to make in areas like fillets and others.
I don't follow Open CASCADE very closely, but it looks like they're on the verge of a new major release (v8.0) themselves that looks like a lot of refactoring and cleanup.
I don't know hat version FreeCAD is actually bundling, but from GitHub it looks like a fork of 7.8.1?
Yes, the OpenCASCADE 8.0 release is very promising. There's a FOSDEM presentation from this year by one of their developers which shows what's in the works.
It's not 'magic' though but previously LLMs have performed very badly on longer multiplication, 'insight' is the wrong word but I'm saying maybe they're not wildly better at this calculation... maybe they are just optimising these well known jagged edges.
I have used Soundcore q20i for more than a year, and I'm sure the AirPods have a better sound and have a better noise cancelling, but the difference in price $549 and 30€ (as I bought them) is pretty insane, also my Soundcore q20i last much longer than 20h and the noise cancelling is already quite good.
Nowadays Starlink terminals to operate in Ukraine they have to be approved so right now Russians cannot waste them anymore on drones as it's much harder getting one working (in the past they have been).
Image quality has improved a lot in recent months thanks to better models. The ability of people to notice these improvements is plateauing because they are not trained to spot artifacts, which are becoming more obscure.
Yes, slight increase in that kind of accuracy. And newer models still generate absurd stuff. Ask for an historical picture, like 'a London market in the 18th century', and it is still as historically wrong as it was 2 years ago. It is useful for fantasy/sci-fi though, I use them a lot. But I don't see the point of newer models since late 2024.
I have no idea how a London market in the 18th century should look like so I cannot challenge that but recent models like nano banana ones, Z-image (on a lesser extend) can generate images that are essentially indistinguishable from actual stock photos, this wasn't true for late 2024 models, with wonky backgrounds, too smooth skins and general lack of details (the classic AI-look that AI images had).
Mmm, I mostly generate scenes, not people, and when I do, it's always in a not photorealistic way. It is true that newer models have more details, I think that I put that into 'slight accuracy improvements', is it really major? Or is it mostly for close up people/animals and it is likely that I just didn't notice?
It will be wrong on a lot of details. Basically you would get a market scene that feels 18th century gb, but will use 18th century russian/french/Austrian details, or 19th century/20th century British artefacts, or a mix of both. And the further you go from western places, the higher the error rate is. Basically generating fiction scenes. That's pretty much my usecase, so that's fine, but I won't ever use it to illustrate a historical TTrpg.
This reminds me when people were doing crazy stuff to improve the first Stable Diffusion model by swapping layers, interpolating weights, documenting which layer was most responsible for the quality of the hands etc. At the end the final models had dozens of different ancestors.
Also, I cannot find any other sources mentioning that the "Police Park" was bombed except for this tweet: https://x.com/tparsi/status/2029555364262228454 (also used by the page you linked)
I believe the logic is based on the fact that male athletes are stronger than female athletes.
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