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Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch 12:19 PM PDT · May 29, 2025 Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X’s Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite of image-generating models — some of which can both create and edit pics. The most capable of the models…
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