The AI breakthrough that uses almost no power to create images (techxplore.com)

Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09446-5

While I do not fully understand how it works, this sounds amazing and should be applicable (eventually) to other workloads.

"The new diffusion-based image generator works by first using a digital encoder (that has been trained on publicly available datasets) to create the static that will ultimately make the picture. This requires a small amount of energy. Then, a liquid crystal screen known as a spatial light modulator (SLM) imprints this pattern onto a laser beam. The beam is then passed through a second decoding SLM, which turns the pattern in the laser into the final image."

Ok, I'm going to go read the paper now, but I have to say, this sounds like absolute nonsense.