Iris-3B Turbo is a free, Apache 2.0 4-step AI image generator with no VAE, plus depth and 4x upscaling. Try it in a free demo or run it locally.
Alibaba open-sourced a 7B image model with native RGBA transparency, and the community had it in 4.19 GB within a day. Free to run, but non-commercial only.
HRDiT is a free MIT-licensed Modular Diffusers block that pushes stock FLUX.1 to 4096px images with no fine-tuning and no new weights. Real VRAM numbers, the exact code, and the licence catch.
SenseTime released SenseNova-U1.5-8B-MoT under Apache 2.0 — generation, editing and understanding in one checkpoint. Here's the free demo, the real VRAM bill, and where it breaks.
Anima-2.9B is a free open-weights anime image model: a 3.08GB int8 build, ComfyUI support, a free LoRA trainer, and a license that lets you sell the art.
NVIDIA shipped a four-step Qwen-Image distill for H100s. Then the GGUF quants landed. Here is how to run this free 20B image model on a 12GB card.