Sperid Labs Releases Iris-3B Open 3B Parameter Image Model Without VAE

Sperid Labs released Iris-3B, a 3B parameter text-to-image model that bypasses traditional latent stages and is available under an Apache 2.0 license. The model's weights, source code, and a demonstration have been published. Developers also applied the model's generative prior to image restoration and depth estimation, as detailed in a research paper.