This sub has SERIOUSLY slept on Chroma. Chroma is basically Flux Pony. It’s not merely “uncensored but lacking knowledge.” It’s the thing many people have been waiting for

I’ve been active on this sub basically since SD 1.5, and whenever something new comes out that ranges from “doesn’t totally suck” to “Amazing,” it gets wall to wall threads blanketing the entire sub during what I’ve come to view as a new model “Honeymoon” phase. All a model needs to get this kind of …

Proxy-FDA: Proxy-Based Feature Distribution Alignment for Fine-Tuning Vision Foundation Models Without Forgetting

Vision foundation models pre-trained on massive data encode rich representations of real-world concepts, which can be adapted to downstream tasks by fine-tuning. However, fine-tuning foundation models on one task often leads to the issue of concept forgetting on other tasks. Recent methods of robust fine-tuning aim to mitigate forgetting of prior knowledge without affecting the …

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Impel enhances automotive dealership customer experience with fine-tuned LLMs on Amazon SageMaker

This post is co-written with Tatia Tsmindashvili, Ana Kolkhidashvili, Guram Dentoshvili, Dachi Choladze from Impel. Impel transforms automotive retail through an AI-powered customer lifecycle management solution that drives dealership operations and customer interactions. Their core product, Sales AI, provides all-day personalized customer engagement, handling vehicle-specific questions and automotive trade-in and financing inquiries. By replacing their …

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Announcing new MCP integrations to Google Cloud Databases to enable AI-assisted development

Last month at Google Cloud Next ‘25, we announced MCP Toolbox for Databases to make it easier to connect generative AI agents to databases, and automate core enterprise workflows. MCP Toolbox for Databases (Toolbox) is an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows developers to easily connect gen AI agents to enterprise data. It …