Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

(opensource.googleblog.com)

26 points | by ledoge 2 hours ago

6 comments

  • Mindless2112 1 hour ago
    > In this Gemini-reconstructed scene, ...

    I'm generally pretty pro-AI, but I find this icky. Of course, I wouldn't have noticed except the whiteboard drawing seemed not quite right, so I'll probably be fooled in the future.

    • zerobees 1 hour ago
      Based on what I've heard, Google is monitoring per-org usage and strongly / incessantly encouraging teams to experiment with the technology, so a lot of tokens get spent on pointless stuff like that. The preceding diagram, which is needlessly busy and blurry, appears to be AI-generated too.
    • markdog12 1 hour ago
      Came here to say the same thing. Why add this fake image?
      • omoikane 50 minutes ago
        My guess is that the original whiteboard probably contained a mix of messy drawings and confidential stuff, and whoever assembled this article asked gemini to make the whiteboard look nicer. The first thing I noticed was that the drawings and labels look too neat compared to what I usually see on whiteboards, and the second thing I saw was the gemini watermark in the corner.
  • yboris 1 hour ago
    Weird they don't name Jon Sneyers - a person pivotal in creation of JPEG XL

    Here's a blog post by him: https://cloudinary.com/blog/2026-the-year-of-jpeg-xl

  • rowbin 2 hours ago
    That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it. The audacity...
    • magicalist 1 hour ago
      > That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it

      This post is written by three of the authors of the JPEG XL spec, implementors of the reference and rust implementations of libjxl, and...longtime google employees.

      • orbital-decay 1 hour ago
        From what I can tell, it's written by Gemini
        • karim79 51 minutes ago
          Yup just a little bit too much em dashes.
    • rowbin 2 hours ago
      > Safari (2023) led among major browsers, while Firefox and Chrome currently maintain experimental support.
    • theturtle 1 hour ago
      [dead]
  • lousken 1 hour ago
    Out of experimental when?
  • neuroelectron 1 hour ago
    AI slop article
  • xuzhenpeng 48 minutes ago
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