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VAR alternatives for AI agents.

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[NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award][GPT beats diffusion🔥] [scaling laws in visual generation📈] Official impl. of "Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction". An *ultra-simple, user-friendly yet state-of-the-art* codebase for autoregressive image generation!

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Infinity

Similarity 154Trust 93Excellent 97

[CVPR 2025 Oral]Infinity ∞ : Scaling Bitwise AutoRegressive Modeling for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

1.6K starsApr 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add FoundationVision/Infinity
#2

Mmagic

Similarity 134Trust 87Strong 79

OpenMMLab Multimodal Advanced, Generative, and Intelligent Creation Toolbox. Unlock the magic 🪄: Generative-AI (AIGC), easy-to-use APIs, awsome model zoo, diffusion models, for text-to-image generation, image/video restoration/enhancement, etc.

7.4K starsAug 6, 2024 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookImage Generation
$ npx skills add open-mmlab/mmagic
#3

UniTok

Similarity 128Trust 82Promising 66

[NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight] A Unified Tokenizer for Visual Generation and Understanding

527 starsNov 14, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add FoundationVision/UniTok
#4

LlamaGen

Similarity 124Trust 84Strong 73

Autoregressive Model Beats Diffusion: 🦙 Llama for Scalable Image Generation

2.0K starsAug 15, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add FoundationVision/LlamaGen
#5

Stable Diffusion Webui Colab

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 97

stable diffusion webui colab

16K starsDec 16, 2025 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookImage Generation
$ npx skills add camenduru/stable-diffusion-webui-colab
#6

DiffusionFastForward

Similarity 123Trust 77Promising 55

DiffusionFastForward: a free course and experimental framework for diffusion-based generative models

682 starsJun 11, 2023 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookImage Generation
$ npx skills add mikonvergence/DiffusionFastForward
#7

Gemini API

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

✨ Reverse-engineered Python API for Google Gemini web app

3.2K starsApr 13, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add HanaokaYuzu/Gemini-API
#8

Blended Latent Diffusion

Similarity 123Trust 75Needs review 54

Official implementation for "Blended Latent Diffusion" [SIGGRAPH 2023]

631 starsJun 4, 2024 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookImage Generation
$ npx skills add omriav/blended-latent-diffusion
#9

FireRed Image Edit

Similarity 121Trust 93Excellent 96

FireRed-Image-Edit is a powerful image editing foundation model achieving open-source state-of-the-art performance with precise instruction following, high-fidelity generation, superior identity consistency, and seamless multi-element fusion.

1.3K starsApr 3, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add FireRedTeam/FireRed-Image-Edit
#10

Diffusers

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 100

🤗 Diffusers: State-of-the-art diffusion models for image, video, and audio generation in PyTorch.

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add huggingface/diffusers
#11

InvokeAI

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 100

Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.

27K starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationTypeScriptImage Generation
$ npx skills add invoke-ai/InvokeAI
#12

NOVA

Similarity 120Trust 80Promising 67

[ICLR 2025] Autoregressive Video Generation without Vector Quantization

651 starsOct 29, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add baaivision/NOVA
#13

Stable Diffusion Webui

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

Stable Diffusion web UI

164K starsMar 2, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
#14

Pixelle Video

Similarity 119Trust 95Excellent 100

🚀 AI 全自动短视频引擎 | AI Fully Automated Short Video Engine

23K starsJun 14, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonImage Generation
$ npx skills add AIDC-AI/Pixelle-Video
#15

OmniGen

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 90

OmniGen: Unified Image Generation. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.11340

4.3K starsDec 4, 2025 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookImage Generation
$ npx skills add VectorSpaceLab/OmniGen
#16

MultiDiffusion

Similarity 119Trust 80Promising 66

Official Pytorch Implementation for "MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation" presenting "MultiDiffusion" (ICML 2023)

1.1K starsSep 21, 2023 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookImage Generation
$ npx skills add omerbt/MultiDiffusion

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