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Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

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396 points doener | 3 comments | 30 Nov 25 11:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zkmon ◴[06 Dec 25 17:38 UTC] No.46175079[source]▶
Just want to learn - who actually needs or buys up generated images?
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nine_k ◴[06 Dec 25 17:58 UTC] No.46175228[source]▶
Some ideas for your consideration:

- Illustrating blog posts, articles, etc.

- A creativity tool for kids (and adults; consider memes).

- Generating ads. (Consider artisan production and specialized venues.)

- Generating assets for games and similar, such as backdrops and textures.

Like any tool, it takes certain skill to use, and the ability to understand the results.

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1. zkmon ◴[06 Dec 25 19:16 UTC] No.46175841[source]▶
Except for gaming, that doesn't sound like a huge market worthy of pouring millions into training these high-quality models. And there is a lot of competition too. I suspect there are some other deep-pocketed customers for these images. Probably animations? movies? TV ads?
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2. pixl97 ◴[06 Dec 25 19:57 UTC] No.46176146[source]▶
Propaganda?
3. nine_k ◴[06 Dec 25 23:56 UTC] No.46177793[source]▶
I'd say that picture ad market alone would suffice.

OTOH these are open-weight models released to the public. We don't get to use more advanced models for free; the free models are likely a byproduct of producing more advanced models anyway. These models can be the freemium tier, or gateway drugs, or a way of torpedoing the competition, if you don't want to believe in the goodwill of their producers.