- I got this working with ONNX (thanks, Claude Opus 4.8) and now I have an interactive demo of the model running entirely in the browser here (~1.3GB download): https://simonw.github.io/moebius-web/ - code here: https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web
(Claude Code transcript: https://gisthost.github.io/?58039ba5c1ca3ed177e8659168996ee4)
Wrote this up in more detail on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/porting-moebius/
by lifthrasiir
1 subcomments
- Tried a bit, and while it is very impressive for 0.2B model it would be very hard to convince me that this matches with 10B models. It did work reasonably well with natural images but inpainted regions were visibly smoother than surroundings, and performed very badly on novel objects. It is also limited to 512x512 output, which limits its practical usefulness.
- I did an inpainting project for a client a few years ago. They were trying to inpaint banner ads for concert promoters, and find a way to make it easy to produce a bunch of different sized ads for a variety of placements. I was tasked with inpainting Xmas themed ad for a few major singers.
The weirdest thing was when the inpainting tool added strange people to an image. This singer was all decked out in tinsel and red, and the inpainting model added a grumpy old man in a top hat. I don't recall clicking the "Add creepy old man" button.
At the time this was Stable Diffusion on the backend, run by a variety of model hosting services, Amazon being one. They all had different requirements for the input image and that made things really complex. For some the aspect ratio was impossible to meet, and it would fail if the banner was 200x60. For others, you had to resize it before input, which meant you were adding an image with poor resolution to start. Garbage in, garbage out.
All of this to say, there is a lot of preproduction that went into it, and the client never ended up using my attempts.
by james2doyle
1 subcomments
- There are some demo spaces using this. This one seems the best (paint your own mask) but it failed on all the images I tried: https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/Moebius
by nickandbro
0 subcomment
- Here is a little app I made that allows you to experiment with all of the fine tuned models that runs entirely in your browser:
https://inpaintlab.com/
by chatmasta
1 subcomments
- What is inpainting? Everyone in the comments seems to be familiar with the term, and I don’t see it described in the linked page.
- Not great. The inpainted areas are, as usual, very smooth compared to the detailed, "high frequency" look of natural photos.
Barely useful enough to erase things in thumbnails.
by pattilupone
1 subcomments
- I want a version of this for manga (for translation). Right now I think the go-to lightweight inpainting model for anime and manga is LaMa which is several years old now and it feels like there is room for improvement.
by delis-thumbs-7e
2 subcomments
- This is the useful AI stuf. There’s so many usecases this makes possible.
by NooneAtAll3
1 subcomments
- I don't understand. Is it available somewhere to try or is it just an ad?
- Unrelated but when I read inpainting and Moebius I was scared it was related and using the art of the great Jean Giraud [0] a.k.a. Moebius
https://characterdesignreferences.com/artist-of-the-week-3/m...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud
by epolanski
3 subcomments
- What is the current SOTA for impainting?
I have a potential project for my e-commerce where I want to allow users to upload images of their house exteriors and impaint awnings.
by michaelfm1211
4 subcomments
- > The core insight of Moebius can be summarized in a single equation:
Synergy × (Architecture + Distillation) = Shattering the "Impossible Triangle" of Low Parameters, Fast Inference, and High Quality
Is it just me or is it weird seeing these clickbaity AI-generated taglines in an otherwise scientific work?
- Nitpick: in the showcase on that page, under Comparison of Natural Scenes, Moebius should definitely get a "structural confusion" tag for the back of the surfboard. If other models get deducted for truncating the surfboard, then surely the elongation that Moebius does should count too.
Also, what's going on behind the in-painted corner of the house? We'd need to see higher resolution pictures, but I'm not convinced that it too shouldn't get a flag. Likewise with the beach just behind the surfboard. Not terrible, but what gets flagged in the competitors is similar.
- The gallery of their samples is pretty impressive!
- Could this run locally on a smartphone ?
- It sure has a thing for chins, jaws and removing weight, looksmaxing build in.
- lot of the photo editors on mobiles have this, maybe even some apps?
- 1) What are RAM requirements?
2) If these are reasonable, a WebGPU demo would be great..
- [dead]
Hacker News