Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

Huge fan of JXL, but this article feels pretty AI sloppy. Not much said here, coming from the google blog I was hoping for some news about how they are pushing the format forward by introducing decoders in to Android and enabling on Chrome.

Android is the only mainstream OS that does not support JPEG XL right now.

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I'm generally pretty pro-AI, but I find this icky. Of course, I wouldn't have noticed except the whiteboard drawing seemed not quite right, so I'll probably be fooled in the future.

Weird they don't name Jon Sneyers - a person pivotal in creation of JPEG XL

Here's a blog post by him: https://cloudinary.com/blog/2026-the-year-of-jpeg-xl

That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it. The audacity...

Mostly off topic, but why is the spec for JPEG and JPEG XL paywalled? I wouldn't call them open standards if they're not available free-of-charge to the public.

I personally think something like the qok format is a better way to go. Make something that performs well and is dirt simple to implement.

Out of experimental when?

I'm behind -- did Chrome un-remove JXL support? Google is suddenly behind it again? Why/how did they change their minds?

AI slop article

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