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

I've done some preliminary testing with Z-Image Turbo in the past week.

Thoughts

- It's fast (~3 seconds on my RTX 4090)

- Surprisingly capable of maintaining image integrity even at high resolutions (1536x1024, sometimes 2048x2048)

- The adherence is impressive for a 6B parameter model

Some tests (2 / 4 passed):

https://imgpb.com/exMoQ

Personally I find it works better as a refiner model downstream of Qwen-Image 20b which has significantly better prompt understanding but has an unnatural "smoothness" to its generated images.

China really is keeping the open weight/source AI scene alive. If in five years a consumer GPU market still exists it would be because of them.

Pretty sure the consumer GPU market mostly exists because of games, which has nothing to do with China or AI.