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

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vunderba ◴[06 Dec 25 17:36 UTC] No.46175068[source]▶
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.

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nialv7 ◴[06 Dec 25 22:15 UTC] No.46177043[source]▶
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.
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p-e-w ◴[06 Dec 25 23:59 UTC] No.46177814[source]▶
Pretty sure the consumer GPU market mostly exists because of games, which has nothing to do with China or AI.
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samus ◴[07 Dec 25 03:42 UTC] No.46178968{3}[source]▶
The consumer GPU market is not treated as a primary market by GPU makers anymore. Similar to how Micron went B2B-only.
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adventured ◴[07 Dec 25 12:24 UTC] No.46181236{4}[source]▶
The parent comment of course understands that. Nvidia views the gaming market as an entry threat, a vector from which a competitor can come after their AI GPU market. That's the reason Nvidia won't be looking to exit the gaming scene no matter how large their AI business gets. If done correctly, staying in the gaming GPU market helps to suppress competition.

Exiting the consumer market is likely a mistake by Micron. If China takes that market segment, they'll eventually take the rest, eliminating most of Micron's value. Holding consumer is about keeping entry attacks covered.

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CamperBob2 ◴[07 Dec 25 17:03 UTC] No.46183145{5}[source]▶
Exiting the consumer market is likely a mistake by Micron.

I actually think their move to shut down the Crucial channel will prove to be a good one. Why? Because we're heading toward a bimodal distribution of outcomes: either the AI bubble won't pop, and it will pay to prioritize the data center customers, or it will pop. In the latter case a consumer/business-facing RAM manufacturer will have to compete with its own surplus/unused product on scales never seen before.

Worst case scenario for Micron/Crucial, all those warehouses full of wafers that Altman has reserved are going to end up back in the normal RAM marketplace anyway. So why not let him foot the bill for fabbing and storing them in the meantime? Seems that the RAM manufacturers are just trying to make the best of a perilous situation.

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gunalx ◴[07 Dec 25 19:17 UTC] No.46184232{6}[source]▶
But why not just keep the consumer brand until stockpiles empty and blame supply issues until things possibly cool down, or people have forgotten the brand at all.
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1. CamperBob2 ◴[07 Dec 25 20:26 UTC] No.46184824{7}[source]▶
I imagine the strategy would get out anyway as soon as retailers tried to place their next round of orders. Might as well get out in front of it with a public announcement. AI make line go up, at least for now.