{"id":521194,"date":"2026-06-27T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521194\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:38:12","slug":"gnome-ai-assistant-adds-image-generation-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521194\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOME AI Assistant Adds Image Generation Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GNOME\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/assets\/categories\/gnome.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nIn development over the past three years has been Newelle as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/GNOME-AI-Assistant-1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant<\/a>. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface.<\/p>\n<p>Newelle 1.4.5 now offers integrated AI image generation support via Stable Diffusion via stablediffusion.cpp or cloud models if setup for Newelle. This integration also works for image editing capabilities too if desired. That cloud model support for image generation works with OpenAI, Pollinations, and OpenRouter.&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782563892_431_image.webp\" alt=\"Newelle project screenshot of image generation demo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This Newelle AI assistant update also redesigned its chat interface to be a more compact UI. The Flatpak version of Newelle also adds STDIO MCP server support, better tool lazy loading, and other fixes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782563892_168_image.webp\" alt=\"Newelle project screenshot of new chat UI\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Newelle 1.4.5 can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/qwersyk\/Newelle\/releases\/tag\/1.4.5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/en\/apps\/io.github.qwersyk.Newelle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flathub<\/a>. Those wanting to learn more about Newelle 1.4.5 and other GNOME program improvements this week can check out the new release of <a href=\"https:\/\/thisweek.gnome.org\/posts\/2026\/06\/twig-255\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Week in GNOME<\/a> for all the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7165,61,60,7164,7162,7161,7168,7166,7163,7167,7160,7171,80,7169,7170],"class_list":["post-521194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-desktop-linux","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-open-source-graphics","tag-phoronix","tag-phoronix-test-suite","tag-technology","tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","tag-ubuntu-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}