Z-Image
Image generation model with single-stream diffusion transformer
...With just 6 billion parameters — far fewer than many large-scale models — it uses a novel “single-stream diffusion Transformer” architecture to deliver photorealistic image generation, demonstrating that excellence does not always require extremely large model sizes. The project includes several variants: Z-Image-Turbo, a distilled version optimized for speed and low resource consumption; Z-Image-Base, the full-capacity foundation model; and Z-Image-Edit, fine-tuned for image editing tasks. Despite its compact size, Z-Image produces outputs that closely rival those from much larger models — including strong rendering of bilingual (English and Chinese) text inside images, accurate prompt adherence, and good layout and composition.