TaoMate – H3 3 steps lora used as a refiner

The lora itself at 3 steps is nothing to write home about. If the scene isn’t mostly static, you can expect slowmo jerky motion, smearing and straight broken output with butchered sound. HOWEVER, it has VERY good visual quality without obvious overcooking plaguing the turbo loras. You add as much steps of non accelerated generation …

Testing MiniMax-H3 Physics knowledge Pt2

Some weeks ago, I posted a set of experiments to “understand” the physical knowledge of MiniMax H3 (original post here). The idea was simple: get an open video of somebody pouring water and replace the water with various liquids. No external references were used. In this set of experiments, I switched from liquid-to-liquid replacement to …

[Experiment] I trained a model on childhood photos to simulate memory recall

I fine-tuned the good-old SDXL on 60 photographs from my childhood, using a limited family archive as the dataset through which to revisit that period of my life. Rather than reconstructing those images faithfully, the model produces unstable variations: spaces, faces and fragments that feel familiar without necessarily having existed. This speculative study treats generative …

Pushing MiniMax H3 quality on an RTX 3070 8GB — movie screenshots, voice refs + 0.5MP workflow

Wanted to see how far I could push the quality using what I already have. An RTX 3070 with just 8GB VRAM. This was done with the standard MiniMax Ref workflow using screenshots from the original movie as character and scene references. I stuck with the standard model rather than Turbo Loras because, at least …

Linus Tech Tips – just experimenting with REFMOD by u/LuisaPinguinnn

For reference here’s the post about REFMOD by it’s creator (u/LuisaPinguinnn). I basically used an old dataset of Linus I had back from the SDXL days to extract a .safetensor file (“mod”) using the nodes from the repo. When using the mod, you don’t need reference images anymore. My prompt is basically just “A youtube …

We open-sourced Sopro V2 Turbo – a 120M voice cloning TTS model that runs 5x faster than real time on CPU

Sopro V2 Turbo is an open-source TTS model that runs locally. Clones a voice from 5-20s of audio ~300ms to first audio on a laptop CPU English, European Portuguese, French, German Local web UI: uvx –from sopro soprotts serve There’s also a Python API and a browser package (@soprotts/onnx-web) for WebGPU/WASM. Repo: https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro Benchmarks + …