Boogu-Image-0.1: Strong Open-Source 10B Diffusion Transformer for Text-to-Image and Editing

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Boogu-Image-0.1 is an Apache-2.0 family of 10B-parameter diffusion transformers (Base, Turbo, Edit variants) for text-to-image generation and image editing. The model pairs a Qwen3-VL 8B text encoder with a 10B diffusion backbone and achieves near-closed-source image quality using roughly one-tenth the training data of comparable open-source models. A 4-step distilled Turbo variant and a dedicated Edit variant are also released.

Why it matters

One of the strongest fully open-source unified image generation models to date, closing a large gap with closed-source systems and offering a commercially permissive base with an edit variant. Ranked #1 on HuggingFace Daily Papers (62 upvotes).

Importance: 3/5

#1 HuggingFace Daily Papers (62 upvotes); near-closed-source image quality with 10× less training data; Apache 2.0 with edit variant

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