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

As an AI outsider with a recent 24GB macbook, can I follow the quick start[1] steps from the repo and expect decent results? How much time would it take to generate a single medium quality image?

[1]: https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image?tab=readme-ov-file#-qu...

If you don't know anything about AI in terms of how these models are run, comfyui's macos version is probably the easiset to use. There is already a Z-Image workflow that you can get and comfyui will get all the models you need and get it work together. Can expect decent speed

I'm fine with the quick start steps and I prefer CLI to GUI anyway. But if I try it and find it too complex, I now know what to try instead - thanks.

I'm still curious whether this would run on a MacBook and how long would it take to generate an image. What machine are you using?

Have a 48GB M4 Pro and every inference step takes like 10 seconds on a 1024x1024 image. so six steps and you need a minute. Not terrible, not great.

I have a 24GB M5 macbook pro. In ComfyUI using default z-image workflow, generating a single image just took me 399 seconds, during which the computer froze and my airpods lost audio.

On replicate.com a single image takes 1.5s at a price of 1000 images per $1. Would be interesting to see how quick it is on ComfyUI Cloud.

Overall, running generative models locally on Macs seems very poor time investment.

Try koboldcpp with the kcppt config file. The easiest way by far.

Download the release here

* https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/tag/v1.103

Download the config file here

* https://huggingface.co/koboldcpp/kcppt/resolve/main/z-image-...

Set +x to the koboldcpp executable and launch it, select 'Load config' and point at the config file, then hit 'launch'.

Wait until the model weights are downloaded and launched, then open a browser and go to:

* http://localhost:5001/sdui

EDIT: This will work for Linux, Windows and Mac