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308 - How Image Diffusion Models Work - the 20 minute explainer

Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast·Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza·24 March 2026·25 min

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You already know how LLMs work from our popular 20-minute explainer. Now we take it to images. What does Michelangelo have to do with stable diffusion? More than you'd think. Walk away knowing how image generation actually works — and what it has in common with the text models you already understand. Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com. Show Notes Episode 303 - How LLMs work in 20 minutes - text generation VAE - Variational Autoencoder RGB Color model - wikipedia Word2Vec technique - wikipedia Efficient Estimation of Word Representation - High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models - Image Training data LAION-5B - 5 billion image-text pairs WebLI - Google's internal image-text Michelangelo Get in touch We'd love to hear from you. Email is the contact page for other We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like Contact us Newsletter Youtube Website Co-hosts: Kaushik Gopal Iury Souza [!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind our new direction.