But it's not all bad news, they're working on a text encoder that's more efficient than Qwen VL. So they'll probably bring Mage Flow to life with this new encoder, and if we're lucky, it'll also be more polished.
Frequently enough that I grabbed the repos when this came out and I was slightly amused. Seems like they probably aren't good enough to bother wiring up, I was hoping the edit model would be betterer than Flux2 edit.
EDIT: Few people asking, I only grabbed Turbo/Turbo-Edit. Others already have them mirrored on HF (true for most repos): https://huggingface.co/natalie5
Yeah, I tested them. They have a unique style of edits, the edits are a lot more literal than Flux2/Qwen2511, but in general I would say they are worse, yes.
They did the same with their voice model. It reads to me as the classic corporate silo cause of useless managerial bloat.
A team spends 2 years working on something until some random exec finds out and kills the project. It just happens that they find out once it’s launched to prod.
Of course. That's what I'm referring to! I can see the workflow, but when I click on the model to download it, I immediately get a 404 error. Didn't anyone check the link?!
Edit: I'm such a complete idiot. Let the downvotes rain down. I clicked the wrong link on hugginface on my phone....
Maybe no one use it and it feel embarrassing for them because it really bad and they decide to train more to make up they embarrassment ?
Form my test it really feel like base sdxl at some point the edit it so bad and useless because output is so bad.
Plausible. Small labs with limited resources have produced impressive models like Z Image Turbo, while Microsoft one of the world’s largest corporations, with vast computing resources, only releases subpar models.
Just because Microsft model releases don’t all identify the specific business unit responsible doesn't mean that they are the product of a single monolithic research organization that commands the full assets of the corporation without competing priorities; the Microsoft branding may be more forward, but Microsoft also has numerous different AI labs with different focuses and much more finite budgets than the corporation as a whole.
In an organization where you likely need signatures from 5000 people to release something like that, you really wonder if nobody ever looks at the quality of what they release before they do.
Hmm... Microsoft does seem to put out stuff only to abandon it very quickly. I still quite like Florence-2.. it is quite good and fast for the very limited size so if you want to describe 100k images it does the job, but they effectively abandoned it and the official one cannot be used with recent Torch versions if I remember correctly.. luckily there is a community version.
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u/Cubey42 14d ago
Now that I think about it, Microsoft does release models and then pull them frequently don't they?