An upcoming image format war?

So this week libwebp2 appeared in a public repository. From a quick glance it looks like lossy format is based on AV1 coding blocks and lossless format is largely the same as the original WebP lossless but both now use ANS coding. And (of course) there’s a hint on experimental lossy encoding using neural networks.

https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2020/11/an-upcoming-image-format-war/

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