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Open-source community seeks state-of-the-art image editing AI models

Users on Reddit's r/StableDiffusion community are discussing the lack of a state-of-the-art, open-weight model for image editing, contrasting this with advancements in other AI domains like text-to-image, music, and video generation. They note that existing open models like Flux2-Klein 9B are outdated and insufficient for major edits, while newer proprietary models from companies like Alibaba (Qwen Image 2.0) and Hidream are not open-sourced. The community expresses a desire for hope regarding future open-source image editing capabilities. AI

IMPACT The lack of advanced open-source image editing models may slow down creative workflows and research in this specific AI application area.

RANK_REASON Community discussion about the lack of a specific type of AI model.

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Open-source community seeks state-of-the-art image editing AI models

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  1. r/StableDiffusion TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Rheumi ·

    Why haven't we got an SOTA open image edit model yet?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey guys,</p> <p>really wondering now why we got (SOTA or at least good enough) open weights on nearly every use case, like LLMs, T2I (Krea2), music (Yue2), video generation (Minimax H3), but not image edit?</p> <p>Don't get me wrong. Flux2-Klein…