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Morning Edition · Thursday, June 25, 2026Published at 6:46 AM EDT · New York
A 220-Million-Parameter Chinese Model Targets Image Inpainting on Modest Hardware
Moebius, from HUST and VIVO's AI lab, is small enough to run a generative image task on a device instead of in the cloud.
A team from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and VIVO's AI Lab has published Moebius, described as an ultracompact model for image inpainting, the task of restoring or filling in missing or removed regions of an image, a…
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