https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/projects/iris-3b/ Material changes in AI models, agents, engineering and infrastructure, with primary sources and recommendations. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:56:00 GMT https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/events/ev-20261005-10/ ev-20261005-10-published Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:02:40 GMT New TRIAL <p>Sperid Labs released Apache-2.0 weights and code for Iris-3B, a 3B pixel-space diffusion model that generates images without a VAE and is fine-tuned for monocular depth and restoration. The model card reports zero-shot depth and 4x restoration results, but evidence remains author-reported and inference requires an NVIDIA GPU plus a separate 4B text encoder for generation.</p><p>Recommendation: TRIAL</p><p>Sources: <a href="https://huggingface.co/speridlabs/iris-3b">Iris-3B</a> · <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09450">Iris-3B: Going Beyond the Latent with Pixel-Space Diffusion Training, Conversion and Fine-Tuning</a></p>