# 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.

Published by The Open Weights on Oct 11, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/moss-image-brpd

## Key facts

- Company: OpenMOSS
- Model: MOSS-Image Base
- Version: Base
- Category: Text → Image
- Modalities: Text → Image
- License: Apache 2.0 (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Architecture: MOSSImagePipeline
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 10.2 GB
- Significance: minor
- Published: 2026-10-11
- Last verified: 2026-10-17
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/moss-image-brpd

OpenMOSS has released [MOSS-Image Base](https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base), a text-to-image model published under the permissive Apache-2.0 license. Positioned as a base model, it is aimed at developers and researchers who want a foundation to build on rather than a finished consumer product.

The standout detail is its bilingual design: the model is built to handle prompts in both English and Chinese. That broadens its usefulness for teams working across both languages, a practical gap that many Western-origin image models leave open.

## Why it matters

Apache-2.0 licensing is the headline here. Unlike some image generators that ship with usage restrictions or research-only terms, a true permissive license gives teams clear latitude to fine-tune, deploy, and build commercial tools on top of the weights.

- Open Apache-2.0 license with few restrictions
- Bilingual English and Chinese prompt support
- Released as a base model for downstream fine-tuning

OpenMOSS has not published parameter counts, supported resolutions, or benchmark results alongside the initial drop, so direct comparisons to established open models remain hard to make. For now, the release is best read as an invitation to experiment, with the community likely to surface its real strengths and limits as people put it through its paces. The weights are available now on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base).

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base)

## Sources

- [OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base](https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base) — Hugging Face, Oct 11, 2026

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