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V9 in May. Z-Image alpha version might come out in May as well 👀
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Apparently Ideogram 4 may be the new king of AI image generation. This guy has only trained an Ideogram LoRa for a few days, training run not even close to finished yet and already it is creating better quality NSFW than Flux Klein or Zimage that has taken months for them. Ideogram seems to converge incredibly quickly in training, it seems to respond lightning fast to lora training. His sample images are out of this world(vaginas still need more training time, but it will come), maybe in a month it will be indistinguishable from Met-Art style nudes. Unfortunately the base model will not be released as it is locked behind enterprise level commercial license. So training on the quantized model is going to be very hard as distilled models are bad for training/fine tuning. Interested to hear your take on it Coyotte. https://huggingface.co/RazzzHF/Realism_Engine_Ideogram_4/tree/main
po vaj, 3) We should be careful about praising models with restrictive licenses. If we embrace them, we risk setting a precedent where every new 'open-weight' release feels entitled to impose these kinds of limitations. We’re essentially voting for a future where 'open' doesn't actually mean open.
I've noticed there's not enough good and powerful post-processing nodes for ComfyUI, so I'm working on one in parallel with work on V9 and Z-Image version. Exclusive LUT presets will be available to my subscribers. I have a photography background, so I feel like this project will turn out interesting
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The guy that does - https://github.com/martin-rizzo/ComfyUI-ZImagePowerNodes Has a great workflow and nodes. Creates some very nice images, but its not very compatible with loras last time I checked.
I will upload one of the ComfyUI nodes I was working on lately soon. It makes setting up the lighting for your image way easier. I'm talking about like 90% easier than without that node.
Any chance you will be including a workflow for the Klein version? As a new comer, I learned so much from your DMD2 workflow, I'm almost as excited to see what you might've cooked up specifically for Klein's needs. Anyways, looking forward to testing it out!