OpenCV 5.0 ships a ground-up rewrite of its DNN engine: ONNX operator coverage jumps from 22% to 80%+, and native LLM/VLM support lands in a library already deployed across embedded systems, medical devices, and industrial hardware that can't run PyTorch.
PrismML's Bonsai Image 4B applies 1-bit and ternary quantization to a FLUX.2 Klein diffusion transformer, compressing it 8.3× to 0.93 GB — small enough to generate images on an iPhone in under 10 seconds. It's the first demonstration that extreme quantization techniques developed for language models transfer cleanly to diffusion architectures.
Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a 38T-token trained hybrid model where 18 of 24 layers are gated convolution blocks rather than attention — and it reaches 253 tokens/second on an M5 Max CPU with under 6 GB of memory.