Tested Krea 2 Raw and Turbo on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI. Turbo bf16 runs ~3.5 min/image, fp8 is rejected on MPS, and Raw's 52-step+CFG NaNs to a black image after 47 min. Plus quality, NSFW behavior, and license.
Tested Boogu-Image-0.1 on an M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: the fp8 build is rejected by MPS, so bf16 is mandatory, and Turbo runs ~70s per 1024px image. Notes on photoreal vs anime, bilingual text, and where NSFW stops.
Tested on M1 Max ComfyUI: newly free JANIMA vs Hexer Minimal Toon Anima V1 vs anima-base, one character LoRA, same seed. Hexer keeps the outfit; JANIMA adds clothes but draws the quietest backgrounds.
AFM 3 splits into 20B on-device sparse (NAND-to-DRAM weight loading) and Cloud Pro on Google Cloud NVIDIA GPU. Three Google contexts, Foundation Models API opening, and what's still unreleased.
Tested LFM2.5-1.2B-JP-202606 on M1 Max 64GB. llama.cpp Q4_K_M: 208 tok/s decode, JSON intact, model name hallucinated (LFM→FDM). Q8_0: 157 tok/s, no hallucination. Tool calls broken via GGUF.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: one character LoRA across 6 Anima derivatives, same prompt/seed. Trigger-only never stabilizes, RDBT bolts to beast-ears, structure tags fix it.
Hands-on with Tencent Hy-MT2 1.8B Q4_K_M (1.08GB) on M1 Max 64GB via llama-server. JSON, SRT, HTML, glossary, and minority-language prompts with full input-output pairs. The 1.25bit 440MB build does not load on stock llama.cpp 8990, and 30B-A3B (hy_v3) is not in the Mac route yet.
Ran WAI-Anima v1.0 with a custom character LoRA on an M1 Mac to see if 2- and 3-character compositions actually hold up. Notes on what breaks and what holds at different LoRA weights, with practical settings that stay stable.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: SetLatentNoiseMask silently fails on Anima + Anima-Turbo. LanPaint runs Example_26 in 32 min/image; Inpaint-CropAndStitch drops that to 2:31 for text inpaint and ~7 min for clothing replacement.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: Anima-Base v1.0 matches preview3-base in speed; WAI-Anima kana LoRA hits 22% on light prompts but 67% with hood+robe+embroidery added.
