Agreed! A lot of people were also using ZiT as a refiner downstream to help with some of the more problematic visual aspects of the original Qwen-Image.
replyI'm really looking forward to running the unified model through its paces.
Something I am skeptical about Z-Image is that it uses Gemma which is imo a weak LLM.
replyIf I were to guess, I would say that Z-Image’s life is shorter than it initially appeared. Even as a refiner which are just workarounds for model issues.
Note that Qwen Image 1.0 (2512) wasted ~8B weights on timestep embedding. Both Z-Image / FLUX.2 series corrected that.
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