1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

I actually can’t wait for the future where I upgrade hardware in order to upgrade my ai as an alternative to an expensive subscription.

There are many problems I want to work on which require billions of tokens. These are completely inaccessible without corporate project sponsorship at the moment. An asic generation machine which can pump out a few 10s of thousands of tokens per second at opus4.6 quality is more than sufficient.

They call it a diffusion model, but it's based on Flux.2 which is a rectified flow model.

Anyone could pickup the minimal hardware requirements for this? Like both RAM and Storage?

Very interested to see where this kind of work goes for on-device video generation!

Is there a benchmark of local image generation models? Local = can run on a 16 GB MacBook or 8 GB+ NVIDIA card.

I wonder why they didn't use a Bonsai model as the text encoder

Lately I've noticed posts with barely 10 points getting to HN frontpage. Was it always like this?

I was expecting to see images of Bonsai trees when I clicked this

Question,

Is it compatible with Ollama, ComfyUI or are those providers unneeded, compatible with low-end hardware?

Also, where does "./setup.sh/ drop the components in Linux?

Thank you, Sol

impressive, combines a couple techniques that I always wanted the frontier models to have

having trouble loading the webgl browser demo on my phone but no biggy