image-editing

Microsoft has released Mage-Flow, a family of 4B-parameter image generation and editing models built on a shared tokenizer-transformer stack. According to Microsoft, the Turbo variants match or beat open-source systems with 5-8x more parameters while running in 4 diffusion steps.

Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.2, a family of image generation models including a 32B parameter open-weight variant. The models support editing at up to 4 megapixel resolution and can reference up to 10 images simultaneously for character and style consistency.

ByteDance has released Lance, a 3-billion parameter multimodal model that performs image and video generation, editing, and understanding within a single framework. The model was trained entirely from scratch using 128 A100 GPUs and achieves 84.67% on DPG-Bench and 74% on GenEval, competing with larger models despite its compact size.

X is rolling out an updated in-app photo editor that integrates Grok to enable text-based image edits alongside traditional tools like blur, text overlay, and drawing. The feature brings X's editing capabilities closer to Google Photos' conversational editing.