@laowangbabababa: Holy shit. Such a small model, and it's this badass... Ant Group and Baidu open-sourced a design model a few days ago c…

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Ant Group and Baidu open-sourced Ming-Image-0.1-Design, a compact 6B-parameter image generation model that topped Artificial Analysis's open-source UI/UX design leaderboard, along with a companion tool Layer that decomposes generated images into editable transparent layers.

Holy shit. Such a small model, and it's this badass... Ant Group and Baidu open-sourced a design model a few days ago called Ming-Image-0.1-Design, just 6B parameters. Among today's image generation models, it's basically a tiny little thing. Then this little guy went and snagged first place in open-source on Artificial Analysis's UI/UX design leaderboard. I was thinking, does this mean we can generate images for free from now on? So what the hell can it actually do? You say: Draw a humanoid robot in an abandoned factory, chest glowing, with a drone floating nearby. And bam—it whips it out for you, details sharp, lighting with that cinematic vibe. Even wilder, it has a sibling called Layer. Toss that image to Layer, and it peels apart the robot, drone, background layer by layer, all on transparent backgrounds—even auto-fills the occluded parts. Wanna move stuff? Move it. Swap it? Swap it. Just like opening a layered file in PS. I was genuinely stunned. First, check out the video I ran myself

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