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Fatih Porikli

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

Why Image Generation Needs More Than Bigger Models with Fatih Porikli

Published
August 12, 2026
Duration
56:47
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Last updated
Aug 19, 2026

Discusses Text-to-image models have become remarkably good at producing realistic images. But realism isn’t th…

Summary

Text-to-image models have become remarkably good at producing realistic images. But realism isn’t the same as correctness. Ask for several distinct people, a specific composition, or a high-resolution image generated locally, and today’s models still struggle in surprising ways. In this episode, Fatih Porikli, Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm, joi…

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Text-to-image models have become remarkably good at producing realistic images. But realism isn’t the same as correctness. Ask for several distinct people, a specific composition, or a high-resolution image generated locally, and today’s models still struggle in surprising ways. In this episode, Fatih Porikli, Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm, joins me to discuss what remains unsolved in image generation and several approaches his team presented at CVPR to address those challenges. We ex