Asked an open AI model to not copy Apple's foldable — it invented a new device
nikola_mr64990 · x · 2026-09-25
- @zhongying14 fed Apple's foldable iPhone screenshot to the open multimodal model Ling-3.0-flash-VL with one instruction: don't copy it, design a new device. The result: a fictional foldable built around "the angle is the interface" — 18° Whisper (one reminder when closed), 74° Lens (documents + AI judgment side by side), 165° Canvas (source left, AI generation right).
- A 0°–180° slider morphs the device's shape, mode, and on-screen content together; the whole page is a single HTML file that runs in a browser.
- Ling-3.0-flash-VL is a natively multimodal model with 124B total parameters and 5.5B activated per token; weights are open-sourced and free on OpenRouter for a limited time. The standout: the model didn't just recreate the page — it grew the reference image into a different product.
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