#image-generation

#image-generation

AI is not a replacement for human creativity, but rather a powerful tool for ideation and concept generation. When used correctly, AI can amplify your creativity by sparking fresh ideas and streamlining tedious tasks. In this blog, we explore how creators can leverage AI to supercharge their portfolio-building process - from breaking through creative blocks to visualizing concepts instantly and crafting compelling case studies.

Google is launching a new AI concepting tool that lets you create moodboards to explore design ideas. The Mixboard Google Labs experiment gives users an open canvas to create projects from pre-populated board templates or text prompts using Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash model. The experimental tool is available through public beta in the US. The format is visually similar to platforms like FigJam or Adobe's Firefly Boards, so this isn't a unique concept, but it's interesting to see Google developing more design-based apps.

For example, when someone asks 'why is there low water pressure after installing a new sink' when they encounter a problem during a home renovation, AI Overviews may provide some helpful tips on how to fix it, as well as a useful ad for a plumber, who can come to the rescue to fix that bathroom.", a new feature to help you create even more brand-safe creative, steering Google AI to create high-performing text assets that meet your brand and business requirements.

In 2023, a group of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, started Chatbot Arena, now called LMArena. It allows people to compare different AI models with prompts and determine which is better. Users can vote for how well models perform and compare them on a leaderboard. LMArena saw a tenfold traffic spike in August when a mysterious new AI text-to-image and image editing model, Nano Banana, went viral for churning out impressive images and photo edits.

In testing the predictive power of pretraining concept frequencies, the results show a clear scaling trend where increased frequency directly correlates with improved zero-shot performance across different prompting strategies and evaluation metrics.