Open image model tops blind tests, runs locally, kills subscriptions

thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-09-02

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B tops blind human tests for both generation and editing, and runs on your own machine. It's a 4B-parameter rectified flow transformer, distilled to 4 steps for sub-second generation on modern hardware. Supports text-to-image, single-reference edit, and multi-reference edit in one checkpoint. Apache 2.0, commercial use included. No separate editing model or inpainting workaround.

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