Why Image Generation Needs More Than Bigger Models with Fatih Porikli - #773

Why Image Generation Needs More Than Bigger Models with Fatih Porikli - #773

Author: Sam Charrington August 13, 2026 Duration: 56:47
Text-to-image models have become remarkably good at producing realistic images. But realism isn’t the same as correctness. Ask for several distinct people, a specific composition, or a high-resolution image generated locally, and today’s models still struggle in surprising ways. In this episode, Fatih Porikli, Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm, joins me to discuss what remains unsolved in image generation and several approaches his team presented at CVPR to address those challenges. We explore why better training objectives can improve controllability, how separating scene planning from rendering may lead to more reliable image generation, techniques for generating 16-megapixel images efficiently on edge devices, and new methods for eliminating the visible artifacts that often appear in AI-powered image editing. Along the way, we discuss reinforcement learning for image generation, agentic image generation pipelines, on-device AI, and what the next phase of progress in generative vision systems is likely to look like. 🗒️  Full show notes: https://twimlai.com/go/773

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