Qwen FOSS = JOY!
Here’s this week’s free ebooks. I also do osintbrief.substack.com
American Eagle, Chinese Dragon
The Lion's Share? A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ALL ASPECTS OF US CORPORATE LAW AND FINANCE
Chinese Vocabulary Builder
Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
feel free to share with your colleagues, friends, & family
Prompt: Generate a beautiful ornate artistic image that illustrates the character 火 with a sample sentence in Chinese to help students of Chinese learn and remember this character 火
Output:
After being so disappointed by the hallucinations of gpt-oss, making it basically useless for translation and history tasks (perhaps it’s STEM focused?) I took solace in the wonderful news. QWEN image generator works at generating Chinese typography.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen-Image
python3 -m venv qwen_env
source qwen_env/bin/activate
pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
pip install transformers accelerate sentencepiece huggingface_hub
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image
Basically download the .json for the workflow
and then run it in ComfyUI
https://www.comfy.org/
don’t be surprised when it tells you to download 27gigs of vae and safetensors
you will then have to put the 3 model files in the correct folder in comfy e.g. vae BUT in the workflow comfy tells you where they go
It’s at least text to image and, again ACCURATE Chinese typography!
Pretty sure it also does accurate English typography.
open source because time after time it’s real obvious open source outperforms due to better code maintenance and improved diffusion. this is true of wikipedia, python, linux. making people pay and limiting the use of their software means fewer access it and then use it. this means the busines scales slower and less widely! the list of FOSS successes is remarkable. I do EVERYTHING free and open source it’s simply more effective, regardless of my own opinions about property. Apache and MySQL are other wild success stories of open source. The only models that should be taken seriously are open source. E.g. gpt-oss though it is remarkably bad (so many hallucinations!) is 1) fast 2) large context window 3) a good base model for fine tuning. Making a model FOSS means it is much likelier to be used for fine tuning. So even though it sucks it will nonetheless at least survive. Jerks like me will be like “well, this is a dog, but i can hit it in the ass and make it a vicious killer if i just keep hitting it and ONLY feeding when it bites!)
Probably whatever supposed split exists between Bill Gates and Sam Altman comes down to failing to understand the fact FOSS is always ultimately more powerful. Popualr Javascript engines are also FOSS. All those python libraries are also FOSS. Android is a proprietary fork of Linux (and people can and do get around that see: HarmonyOS)
The internet couldn’t run without FOSS. It would be limited to Web 1.0 — static, maybe backend cgis, but no PERL for another example how no FOSS = no internet.
Probably the party state should love that and talk it up, but i live in the upside down world.