Canter 2B: Single-GPU trained model signals indie AI era
multimodalart · x · 2026-08-25
A new photography-oriented text-to-image model, Canter 2B, is being trained on a single GPU. With the v0002 checkpoint now available on Hugging Face Spaces, this development suggests we are entering an era of "indie AI models" where high-quality training becomes accessible to individual developers.
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