Modern artificial intelligence models have an environmental impact, especially when it comes to image generation.
But as demand for these models grows, UCLA engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan and his team have reimagined a way to generate AI images with less energy.

In late October and early November, many of Southern California’s beaches had bright blue waves.
The glow was caused by large amounts of phytoplankton, a type of small photosynthetic organism at the bottom of the ocean food chain, said Rebecca Shipe, an adjunct associate professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.