Releases @ Draw Things

Introducing MediaGenerationKit: Hybrid Media Generation for Production Apps

A Swift package for integrating open-weight image and video models, with the flexibility to run locally or through the cloud.

Apr 1 • Authors of Draw Things

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Metal Quantized Attention: pulling M5 Max ahead with Int8 matrix multiplication

M5 Max is the biggest AI performance jump we have seen on Apple Silicon. Our latest release pushes real-world performance further with Metal Quantized…

Apr 1 • Authors of Draw Things

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March 2026

Draw Things Test Set: a status update

Today’s image models are powerful, but where do they still break? In building the Draw Things Test Set, we found both recurring failure modes and a few…

Mar 26 • Authors of Draw Things

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draw-things-cli: local media generation from command-line on your Mac

draw-things-cli is our rebooted image generation CLI: fast, scriptable, and powered by Draw Things’ custom inference stack. It is also the fastest image…

Mar 25 • Authors of Draw Things

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Introducing Lightning Draft: interactive image generation on M5 Max

M5 Max, which shipped in early March, delivers breakthrough AI performance, with more than a 3.3× speed-up over M4 Max.

Mar 24 • Authors of Draw Things

December 2025

Quantify Z Image Turbo efficiency gains

Z Image Turbo, with the Draw Things implementation, delivers the fastest state-of-the-art image generation experience on Apple devices.

Dec 9, 2025 • Authors of Draw Things

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November 2025

Metal FlashAttention v2.5 w/ Neural Accelerators: delivering breakthrough performance on the Apple M5 chip

Draw Things brings breakthrough 4.6× performance gains to Apple silicon with Metal FlashAttention v2.5 w/ Neural Accelerators.

Nov 10, 2025 • Authors of Draw Things

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October 2025

September 2025

iPhone 17 Pro doubles AI performance for the next wave of generative models

With new Neural Accelerator, the iPhone 17 Pro delivers a 2× leap in inference speed. FLUX.1 completes in under 35 seconds, while larger 20B models like…

Sep 19, 2025 • Authors of Draw Things

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August 2025

Privacy Pass and Draw Things+ Cloud Compute

Draw Things+ Cloud Compute now provides not just privacy-first, but privacy-guaranteed Cloud Compute for media generation tasks.

Aug 20, 2025 • Authors of Draw Things

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Introducing Qwen Image support

The most powerful open-source image generation model now is broadly available across the Apple ecosystem.

Aug 15, 2025 • Authors of Draw Things

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