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Category · image

Latest Text → Image models

The newest open-source Text → Image releases, from across the ecosystem.

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29 releases

Ideogram/Text → Image

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
Ideogram 4.0
Any-to-Any
ByteDance
/
Major release

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
Lance
SenseTime/Any-to-Any

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
SenseNova U1 8B MoT Infographic
inclusionAI/Any-to-Any

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
LLaDA2.0-Uni
SenseTime/Any-to-Any

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-U1-8B-MoT
SenseNova-U1-8B-MoT
Baidu/Text → Image

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
ERNIE-Image
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

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
FLUX.2 small decoder
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

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 base 4B
FLUX.2 klein base 4B
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → Image

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
Z-Image
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

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 base 4B
FLUX.2 klein base 4B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

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 base 4B
FLUX.2 klein base 4B
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

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 base 4B
FLUX.2 klein base 4B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

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 base 4B
FLUX.2 klein base 4B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

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 base 4B
FLUX.2 klein base 4B
Zhipu AI/Text → Image

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
GLM-Image
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → Image

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-Image 2512
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → Image

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
Z-Image-Turbo
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

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]
FLUX.2 [dev]
Allen Institute for AI/Any-to-Any

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
Emu3.5
Tencent/Text → Image

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
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
Tencent/Text → ImageMajor release

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
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
Alpha-VLLM/Any-to-Any

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
Lumina-DiMOO
Tencent/Text → Image

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
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
HunyuanImage 2.1
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageMajor release

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
Qwen-Image
Skywork/Any-to-Any

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
Skywork-UniPic-1.5B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

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]
FLUX.1 Krea [dev]
AIDC-AI/Any-to-Any

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
Ovis-U1-3B
FreedomIntelligence/Any-to-Any

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
Janus-4o-7B