Hello, builders and visionaries,
This week, local AI got a major upgrade — and your workflows just got sharper, faster, and more expressive.
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🧩 Ecosystem Highlights
Qwen3-Next Lands on llama.cpp
Big news for local AI enthusiasts: llama.cpp (PR #16095) just added support for Qwen3-Next — Qwen’s new hybrid architecture!
You can now run Qwen3-Next locally with efficient CPU/GPU inference.
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Z-Image Milestone: 1 Million ComfyUI Workflow Downloads in One Week
Our Z-Image ComfyUI workflow just crossed 1,000,000 downloads in 7 days — a historic moment for open generative AI.
Thank you for making Z-Image not just fast and small — but beloved.
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Z-Image-Turbo ControlNet Union Now Live
Tired of managing separate ControlNet files?Alibaba-PAI just dropped a Z-Image-Turbo ControlNet Union that handles Canny, Depth, Pose, HED, and MLSD in a single model.
Trained on 1 million images at 1328px resolution, so it actually respects high-res details.
🔗 Download on Hugging Face
✨ Community Spotlights
Concept Sliders for Z-Image: sliders-for-windows from sdbds (Qing Long)
Want more texture without changing your subject? sdbds drops this LoRA for Z-Image using Concept Sliders to dig deeper into the model.
It enhances fine details and lighting rendering while keeping your original content 100% intact. No hallucinations, just high-definition polish.
👉 Try it here
Children's Drawings: z_image_turbo_childrens_drawings from ostris
ostris released this "Children's Drawings" model as part of a full training tutorial with AI Toolkit. Come for the crayon scribbles, stay for the dev knowledge. Perfect for when you need that "my 5-year-old drew this" energy in your generations.
👉 Try it here
Technically Color Z: Technically-Color-Z-Image-Turbo from renderartist
Technically Color Z by renderartist is meticulously crafted to capture the unmistakable essence of classic film. This LoRA greatly enhances the depth and brilliance of hues, creating more realistic yet dreamlike textures, lush greens, brilliant blues, and sometimes even the distinctive glow seen in classic productions, making your outputs look truly like they've stepped right off a silver screen.
👉 Try it here
Pixel Art: elusarca-pixel-art-style-lora-zimage-turbo from reverentelusarca
If you’re generating retro assets, you need this in your workflow. The Pixel Art LoRA for Z-Image-Turbo by reverentelusarca cleans up the noise and forces a much crispier grid than the default output.
A must-have for that 16-bit aesthetic.
👉 Try it here
Material Transfer: Qwen-Edit-2509-Material-transfer from oumoumad
oumoumad dropped a Material Transfer LoRA for Qwen-Image-Edit-2509. You can take a plain render (like a car seat or cabin), feed it a material board or shaderball, and it applies the texture instantly.
CMF workflow just got a whole lot faster.
👉 Try it here
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