A derivative checkpoint of Z-Image Turbo released on ModelScope. It is tuned for skin texture and film-photography-like aesthetics, and can run on an M1 Max with 64GB.
A look at ACE-Step, the 'Stable Diffusion of music,' covering its architecture, features, installation, and expected performance on Apple Silicon before trying it on an M1 Max.
An overview of Z-Image-Distilled, the distilled fast-inference variant of Z-Image, including how it compares with FLUX.1 Schnell, how it runs on an M1 Max 64GB machine, and LoRA compatibility.
Klein 9B is undistilled and non-commercial, wants ~29GB, and sub-second RTX 4090 speeds don't translate to MPS. Where the CUDA gap comes from (memory bandwidth, FP8), and the 4B follow-up that hits 30-40s per 1024px image on M1 Max.
A plan to build an internal help desk RAG system using a Mac mini M4 Pro and Dify. Highlights what's new in Dify circa 2025 and tips for running local LLMs.
Introducing a Mac mini M4 Pro to build an in-house RAG system. A plan for setting up a LoRA training environment during downtime while waiting for specs to be finalized.
