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GNOME AI Assistant Adds Image Generation Support
Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 27 June 2026 at 06:43 AM EDT. 1 Comment
In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface.
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.
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.
Newelle 1.4.5 can be downloaded from GitHub or Flathub. Those wanting to learn more about Newelle 1.4.5 and other GNOME program improvements this week can check out the new release of This Week in GNOME for all the details.
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