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Latest Text → Image models

Open diffusion and autoregressive image generators you can run on your own hardware — from photorealism to illustration, design, and concept art.

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51 releases

Briaai/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Bria's Fibo 2.0 Brings Structured Prompts to Open Image AI

The new text-to-image and editing model leans on structured prompts and multi-reference inputs for more controllable generation.

Oct 18, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
Fibo 2.0-dev
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

Black Forest Labs ships FLUX.3 Image Klein for ComfyUI

The lab's latest open image model arrives packaged for ComfyUI with both generation and editing built in.

Oct 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.3 Image Klein
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs ships FLUX.3 Image Klein

The latest open image model from the FLUX team handles both text-to-image generation and editing, and arrives ready to run in Diffusers.

Oct 13, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.3 Image Klein
OpenMOSS/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

OpenMOSS Releases MOSS-Image Under Apache 2.0

The academic team behind the MOSS project moves into text-to-image generation with a permissively licensed model and a fine-tuned SFT variant.

Oct 11, 2026
Text → Image
MOSS-Image SFT
OpenMOSS/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

OpenMOSS Releases Apache-2.0 Bilingual Image Model

MOSS-Image Base arrives as a permissively licensed text-to-image foundation with English and Chinese support.

Oct 11, 2026
Text → Image
MOSS-Image SFT
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo targets faster generation

Alibaba's Qwen team ships a distilled, few-step variant of its image model built for speed.

Oct 9, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
inclusionAI/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

inclusionAI's Ming-Image targets graphic design

A new MIT-licensed text-to-image model leans into legible text rendering and transparent RGBA output for design work.

Sep 17, 2026
Text → Image
Ming-Image-0.1-Design
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Qwen-Image-2.1 Adds RGBA to Image Generation

Alibaba's Qwen team updates its open image model with transparency support and joint text-to-image and editing capabilities.

Sep 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
Qwen-Image-2.1
SenseTime/Any-to-AnyRuns on a laptop

SenseTime's SenseNova-U1.5 Unifies Vision Tasks

An 8B model drops the usual encoder and VAE in favor of a single native architecture spanning understanding, reasoning, and image generation.

Sep 9, 2026
Any-to-AnyText → Image
inclusionAI/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

LLaDA-Image: A Fully Open 6B Image Generator

inclusionAI pairs a diffusion transformer with a frozen vision-language model and publishes the entire training recipe.

Sep 2, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
Lodestones/Text → Image

Kroma: An MIT-Licensed Text-to-Image Model for ComfyUI

Lodestones releases an open image generator built on the Krea 2 lineage, aimed squarely at ComfyUI workflows.

Jul 31, 2026
Text → Image
Kroma
SenseTime/Any-to-AnyRuns on a laptop

SenseTime Debuts SenseNova U1.5 8B Multimodal Preview

An 8B any-to-any model that reads, generates, and edits images at up to 4K resolution, released as an early preview.

Jul 28, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
SenseNova-U1.5-8B-MoT
Microsoft/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Microsoft's Mage-Flow packs image editing into 4B

A compact model handles both text-to-image generation and instruction-based edits at native resolution, under a permissive MIT license.

Jul 21, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
Mage-Flow
Unknown/Any-to-Any

Boogu-Image-0.1 Brings Unified Multimodal to Open Source

A new Apache-licensed model family folds bilingual text-to-image generation and instruction editing into one system.

Jul 13, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
NVIDIA/Text → ImageConsumer GPU

NVIDIA distills Qwen-Image for few-step generation

A DMD2-distilled build of Qwen-Image trades sampling steps for speed while keeping the original model's output profile.

Jul 1, 2026
Text → Image
Qwen-Image-Flash
Krea/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Krea 2 Arrives as Open-Weights Text-to-Image Model

The image-generation startup releases its second-generation diffusion model in raw and turbo variants under open weights.

Jun 18, 2026
Text → Image
Krea 2
Krea/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

Krea 2 Arrives as a 12B Open-Weights Image Model

A new text-to-image model ships with a faster Turbo variant and downloadable weights on Hugging Face.

Jun 18, 2026
Text → Image
Krea 2
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Ideogram 4.0 arrives as an open-weight image model

A 9.3-billion-parameter text-to-image model lands on GitHub with downloadable weights and code.

Jun 3, 2026
Text → Image
Stability AI/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Ideogram 4.0 arrives as an open-weight image model

A 9.3-billion-parameter text-to-image system lands with open weights and a public GitHub home.

Jun 3, 2026
Text → Image
Ideogram Ai/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Ideogram 4.0: A 9.3B Open-Weight Text-to-Image Model

The new 9.3 billion parameter model uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture and excels at rendering coherent text within generated images.

May 30, 2026
Text → Image
Ideogram 4.0
ByteDance/Any-to-AnyMajor releaseRuns anywhere

ByteDance Releases Lance, a Unified Generative AI Model

The 3-billion-parameter model handles image and video generation, editing, and understanding from a single set of weights under a permissive license.

May 15, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
Lance
SenseTime/Any-to-AnyRuns on a laptop

SenseTime Releases 8B 'Any-to-Any' Infographic Model

The new 8B-parameter SenseNova U1 model from SenseTime is designed for complex multimodal tasks, including the in-conversation generation and editing of infographics.

May 14, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
SenseNova U1 8B MoT Infographic
inclusionAI/Any-to-AnyRuns on a laptop

LLaDA2.0-Uni: A Unified MoE for Vision Tasks

The new open-source model from inclusionAI uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to handle multiple vision tasks in a single, diffusion-based system.

Apr 22, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
LLaDA2.0-Uni
SenseTime/Any-to-AnyRuns on a laptop

SenseTime Releases 8B Any-to-Any Multimodal Model

The new SenseNova-U1 model unifies image understanding, generation, and editing within a single 8-billion-parameter framework.

Apr 22, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
SenseNova-U1.5-8B-MoT
Baidu/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Baidu Releases 8B Text-to-Image Model ERNIE-Image

The large diffusion model from the Chinese tech giant is available under the commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license, a notable release for the community.

Apr 7, 2026
Text → Image
ERNIE-Image
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageRuns anywhere

Black Forest Labs Releases Open FLUX.2 Image Decoder

This new component is part of a novel transformer-based architecture for text-to-image generation, released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Apr 6, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 small decoder
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 klein Image Model

The new open-weight model offers a more compact, distilled version of the advanced FLUX architecture for text-to-image and editing tasks.

Mar 9, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX.2 Klein 9B

The open-weight text-to-image model brings a 9-billion-parameter base release to the FLUX.2 Klein family.

Jan 28, 2026
Text → Image
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Alibaba's Qwen Team Releases Z-Image Diffusion Model

The makers of the popular Qwen language models have published their first open-source text-to-image generator with a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Jan 23, 2026
Text → Image
Z-Image
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 Image Model

The new text-to-image model emphasizes speed and efficiency with a novel architecture and FP8 quantization.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs Releases Open-Source FLUX.2 Klein 4B

The new 4-billion-parameter model is a distilled version of the powerful FLUX.2 architecture, released under a commercially-friendly Apache 2.0 license.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

FLUX.2 Klein: A Compact 4B Open-Source Image Model

The new 4-billion-parameter model from Black Forest Labs offers an efficient, transformer-based alternative to latent diffusion for image generation.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 Image Model

The new 9-billion-parameter model uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture, promising higher performance than existing open-source alternatives.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs Releases New FLUX.2 Image Model

The new 9-billion-parameter text-to-image model uses a novel architecture that operates directly on pixels for faster, more efficient generation.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Zhipu AI/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Zhipu AI Releases Open, Bilingual GLM-Image Model

The new text-to-image model is fluent in both Chinese and English, built on the CogView2 architecture and released under a permissive MIT license.

Jan 8, 2026
Text → Image
GLM-Image
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageConsumer GPU

Qwen Releases Bilingual Open-Source Image Model

Alibaba's latest text-to-image generator, Qwen-Image 2512, is optimized for creating visuals from both English and Chinese prompts.

Dec 30, 2025
Text → Image
Qwen-Image 2512
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Alibaba Releases Z-Image-Turbo, A Fast Open Image Model

The new text-to-image model from the team behind Qwen uses a diffusion transformer to generate high-resolution images in just a single step.

Nov 25, 2025
Text → Image
Z-Image-Turbo
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseWorkstation GPU

Black Forest Labs Releases Open-Source FLUX.2 Image Model

The developer preview of the next-generation text-to-image architecture promises significant architectural improvements over its predecessor.

Nov 22, 2025
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 [dev]
BAAI/Any-to-AnyConsumer GPU

BAAI Releases Emu3.5, an 'Any-to-Any' Multimodal Model

The new open-source model from the Allen Institute for AI unifies text and image understanding and generation into a single architecture.

Oct 31, 2025
Any-to-AnyText → Image
Emu3.5
Tencent/Text → ImageWorkstation GPU

Tencent Debuts HunyuanImage 3.0 with MoE Design

The new text-to-image generator from the Chinese tech giant uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture for more efficient and detailed image creation.

Sep 25, 2025
Text → Image
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
Tencent/Text → ImageMajor releaseWorkstation GPU

Tencent Releases HunyuanImage 3.0 Text-to-Image Model

The new text-to-image generator from the Chinese tech giant uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture for improved efficiency and output quality.

Sep 25, 2025
Text → Image
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
Alpha-VLLM/Any-to-AnyRuns on a laptop

Lumina-DiMOO: A Diffusion Model for Any-to-Any AI

This new open-source model uses a diffusion architecture instead of a typical transformer to generate and understand a mix of media types.

Sep 9, 2025
Any-to-AnyText → Image
Lumina-DiMOO
Tencent/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Tencent SRPO Fine-Tunes SDXL with Preference Optimization

The new text-to-image model uses a novel rejection sampling technique to align Stable Diffusion XL more closely with human aesthetic preferences.

Sep 8, 2025
Text → Image
SRPO
Tencent/Text → Image

Tencent Releases HunyuanImage 2.1 for Bilingual AI Art

The new text-to-image model from the Chinese tech giant is designed to understand both Chinese and English prompts at high resolutions.

Sep 5, 2025
Text → Image
HunyuanImage 2.1
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageMajor releaseConsumer GPU

Qwen releases open model for text-in-image generation

The new Apache 2.0 diffusion model from Alibaba's Qwen team focuses on accurately rendering both English and Chinese characters within generated images.

Aug 2, 2025
Text → Image
Qwen-Image
Skywork/Any-to-AnyRuns anywhere

Skywork Releases UniPic, a Unified 1.5B Vision Model

The new autoregressive model from the Chinese AI lab can understand, generate, and edit images within a single, compact framework.

Jul 29, 2025
Image EditingAny-to-Any
Skywork-UniPic-1.5B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX.1 Krea Image Model

The new 12-billion-parameter model, tuned by creative AI platform Krea, focuses on high-quality aesthetic output and prompt fidelity.

Jul 7, 2025
Text → Image
FLUX.1 Krea [dev]
AIDC-AI/Any-to-AnyRuns on a laptop

Ovis-U1-3B Unifies Image Understanding and Generation

The new 3-billion-parameter model from AIDC-AI combines vision-language understanding and image generation into a single 'any-to-any' framework.

Jun 28, 2025
Any-to-AnyText → Image
Ovis-U1-3B
FreedomIntelligence/Any-to-AnyRuns on a laptop

Janus-4o-7B Adds Image Generation to 7B Multimodal AI

The new 7-billion-parameter model from FreedomIntelligence can process various inputs and generate or edit images based on text prompts.

Jun 23, 2025
Image EditingAny-to-Any
Janus-4o-7B
Unknown/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Illustrious-XL v0.1 Arrives as Anime Image Base

A 3.5B-parameter SDXL derivative aims to become the go-to foundation for anime-style text-to-image fine-tunes.

Sep 25, 2024
Text → Image
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

FLUX.1 Dev Becomes the Open-Weight Base to Beat

Black Forest Labs' 12B rectified-flow model has quietly emerged as the default foundation for open image generation.

Aug 2, 2024
Text → Image
FLUX.1 Dev