There is a new #1 open weights text to image model in town. Z-Image Turbo is the first model released by the Alibaba Tongyi-MAI team. It is already surpassing Flux.2 Dev and Qwen Image in Image Arena. It is pretty cheap too as you can make 1K images for only $5. You will have to pay $12 for 1k images with Flux.2 and $20k for 1k images with Qwen.
Z-Image Turbo is the new #1 open weights Text to Image model, surpassing FLUX.2 [dev], HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal), and Qwen-Image in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena.
Z-Image Turbo is the first model released by the Alibaba Tongyi-MAI team (separate from the Alibaba Wan, and Qwen… pic.twitter.com/0gbV2cwhUV
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Z-Image Turbo is released under the Apache 2.0 open source license. It will be available via API on Alibaba Cloud, fal, and Replicate.
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