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Why haven't we got an SOTA open image edit model yet?

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Hey guys, really wondering now why we got (SOTA or at least good enough) open weights on nearly every use case, like LLMs, T2I (Krea2), music (Yue2), video generation (Minimax H3), but not image edit? Don't get me wrong. Flux2-Klein 9B ist fine, for small image edits but out of the box reference2i…

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  1. 2026-09-17 06:55 · r/StableDiffusion
    Why haven't we got an SOTA open image edit model yet?

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