F3's biggest letdown: it ships the exact same VAE as F2 with no retraining

returnity · reddit · 2026-10-17

A Reddit user's biggest disappointment with F3: the VAE is identical to F2's — no new or further-improved VAE was trained at all. The author expected a significantly upgraded VAE between model generations, as in past releases, one that other models could also reuse.

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