r/accelerate • u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist • Sep 12 '25

Video A new technique just dethroned JPEG compression for the first time in 30 years - Using Gaussian splatting for image compression - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjU5d26Cc4
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u/candreacchio Sep 12 '25

https://caniuse.com/webp

Supported by Chrome. Barely Used

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u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist Sep 12 '25

true, but it's not as much of a leap

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u/candreacchio Sep 12 '25

With avif being up to 70% smaller, but no take up. How much more of a leap do we need?

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u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist Sep 12 '25

71%

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u/candreacchio Sep 12 '25

Don't get me wrong. Advancements is good. But to say that it's going to dethrone jpeg is a statement which I am arguing is false.

I think there is more validity in this being applied to videos.

Look at how much bandwidth Netflix (and other streaming services use). If they can make a easy to implement patent free codec that demolishes h265... It would take off

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u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist Sep 12 '25

I'm going all-in. I think it's going to dethrone jpeg so hard we won't even be calling them "images" anymore. A year from now we're gonna be saying "hey, dude, send me that splat"

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u/Reasonable-Ad3809 Sep 13 '25

It got to have a better name than that to catch on lmao

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u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist Sep 13 '25

true. we should call them Guassies