Tag: SperidLabs

  • SperidLabs Releases Iris-3B, a Pixel-Space Image Model Without a VAE

    SperidLabs Releases Iris-3B, a Pixel-Space Image Model Without a VAE

    Lead — On October 7, 2026, the research lab SperidLabs posted Iris-3B, a 3-billion-parameter text-to-image model that generates pictures with no VAE and no latent space: the network paints every pixel directly. The weights and training code went up on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 licence, and the accompanying paper reports that pixel-space generation […]