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Oh yeah, it was hilarious to watch on reddit where people were amazed at flux2 quality, and then z-image comes out and everybody forgets about flux cause they can actually run z-image and it's not censored either. I don't even understand wtf American companies are doing at this point, it's as if they don't understand their business model is gone.
I guess maybe they're trying to lobby to ban Chinese models in US, but that's gonna be a pretty tough sell at this point. These models are open source, so you can't make the argument that they send data to China, and a bunch of US companies are now dependent on them, so now there's a direct commercial interest too. Like fucking Amazon uses Qwen, they're obviously going to fight to keep using it.
flux.dev is/was nice, but it was also the only one they allowed to be used locally. I guess their business model was to allow a small version for consumer use and hope it provides free marketing? I don't really see the point of even running flux dev now since we have z-image, though it does seem to be a bit worse at text writing (but you will probably be able to use another checkpoint for that soon if I understand how that works).
yeah z-image is basically strictly superior cause the output is comparable, but the requirements are way lower