Recently, the LongCat team of Meituan announced the release of the LongCat-Image image generation model and made it open source. This new model, with a parameter scale of 6B, achieves a perfect combination of high performance and low threshold, aiming to meet the growing demand for AI image generation. As the industry's expectations for image generation technology continue to rise, the LongCat-Image model was born, bridging the gap between open-source and closed-source models.

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The LongCat-Image performs exceptionally well in text-to-image generation and image editing. In image editing, the model has reached open-source SOTA (State-of-the-Art) levels on multiple benchmark tests, fully demonstrating its strong capabilities in instruction following and visual consistency. The team achieved this through systematic training strategies and data engineering, ensuring the model maintains high performance and accuracy even under diverse instructions.

Especially in Chinese text generation, LongCat-Image demonstrates extremely high precision. The model uses a curriculum learning strategy to comprehensively improve character coverage and rendering effects for Chinese characters, supporting the rendering of complex stroke structures, meeting the needs of scenarios such as poster design and commercial advertising.

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In addition, the design of LongCat-Image focuses on user experience, using subjective scoring methods to evaluate the model, ensuring high levels of realism and visual plausibility in text-to-image and image editing tasks. All these efforts have enabled LongCat-Image to stand out in competition with other open-source and closed-source models, showcasing strong market potential.

The LongCat team stated that they aim to build a transparent, open, and collaborative ecosystem through open-source initiatives, encouraging developers to participate in the use and development of the model. Users can access LongCat-Image via Hugging Face and GitHub to experience the powerful features of this high-performance model.

To further expand the possibilities of AI creation, the LongCat APP has also been upgraded, adding a image-to-image function. Users can easily upload various materials, and the model will automatically generate new images. At the same time, the APP provides 24 easy-to-use templates to help users quickly achieve professional-level image creation.