ERNIE Image released

ERNIE Image is an open-source text-to-image generation model developed by Baidu, built on a single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT) paired with a lightweight Prompt Enhancer that expands brief user inputs into richer structured descriptions; with only 8B DiT parameters, it claims state-of-the-art performance among open-weight text-to-image models. The model excels at complex instruction following, text rendering, and structured image generation — making it well suited for commercial posters, comics, and multi-panel layouts — and can run on consumer GPUs with 24GB VRAM. A distilled variant, ERNIE-Image-Turbo, is also available, built on the same DiT architecture and designed for fast generation with strong fidelity in only 8 inference steps.

Source: r/StableDiffusion | 2026-04-14