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Repo · storytold/photocraftNew · 23d oldRust-powered Photoshop clone rakes in 3k stars overnightPhotoCraft is an open-source image editor that replicates Photoshop’s layers, masks, adjustment layers and PSD compatibility. It runs natively with GPU acceleration via wgpu, so edits stay offline and fast.▲ 3.1k71.5k
Model · abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantizedabenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized▲ 1474.9k
Model · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flashdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash▲ 1094.7k
Model · Qwen/Qwen3.8-27BQwen releases 27B vision-language model, boosting image-to-text AIQwen3.8-27B is a 27-billion-parameter model that can look at images or video frames and generate descriptive text. It also supports complex multi-step reasoning and autonomous planning, making it useful for coding help, research, and long-horizon tasks.18.2k
Model · Lightricks/LTX-2.5Lightricks/LTX-2.58.9k
Model · Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-NextQwen3.8-Flash-Next offers faster long-context LLM inferenceQwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weight language model that can handle up to a million tokens while keeping latency low, thanks to its new hybrid attention called Qwen Sparse Attention. It runs with the standard Hugging Face Transformers stack and is compatible with vLLM, SGLang and TokenSpeed.6.4k
Model · baidu/Unlimited-OCRbaidu/Unlimited-OCR4.9k
Space · selfit-camera/Omni-Image-Editorselfit-camera/Omni-Image-Editor2.9k
Paper · Policy-Mask: Budget-Aware Adaptation of Diffusion Features to Discriminative TasksPolicy-Mask trims diffusion features for classificationPolicy-Mask automatically selects timesteps, layers and channel groups from a frozen diffusion model to use for discriminative tasks. It learns a lightweight, budget-aware policy so you don’t have to hand-pick features across the denoising trajectory.27
Paper · Code2Video-Compass: A Comprehensive Benchmark for General-Purpose Code-Based Video Generation across T2V, I2V, and V2VCode2Video-Compass: A Comprehensive Benchmark for General-Purpose Code-Based Video Generation across T2V, I2V, and V2V16

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