[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 + …

Time saver while learning how to prompt Minimax.

Rather than relying on Z-image, or a different program to wrangle up a first frame, I’ve been using Minimax for the whole process, and the results have been pretty instructive. It’s not a perfect system, but being able to take advantage of its understanding of people, references, and shot composition for the first frame produces …