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Tencent and WeChat-backed WeLM-Image unifies image generation and understanding

A new paper introduces WeLM-Image, a unified image foundation model combining multimodal understanding with text-to-image and instruction-guided generation, reported as a 31.7B-parameter MoE with 5.4B active and fast inference.

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  1. 2026-11-07 19:41 · r/StableDiffusion
    [Papers] - WeLM-Image MoE 31.7B-5.4B: A Unified Image Generation Model towards Visual Intelligence
  2. 2026-11-06 05:00 · arXiv cs.CV
    WeLM-Image: A Unified Image Generation Model towards Visual Intelligence

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