🖼️ POCKET-Image — the POCKET series goes visual: character-perfect text in any language, on-device
A new model in VIDRAFT's POCKET family. POCKET put 35B-class models on phones and no-GPU PCs. POCKET-Image carries the same "big capability, small hardware" idea into image generation — and fixes the one thing nearly every image model gets wrong: text.
Type "안녕하세요" into a typical model and you get "안ㅐ기." Hangul alone composes 11,172 syllable blocks; Arabic connects its letters; Thai stacks marks. Diffusion models draw scripts as shapes, so they smear. POCKET-Image renders every glyph exactly — 한국어 · 中文 · 日本語 · العربية (RTL) · ไทย · Latin and more — onto any scene you describe.
What it is: • 100% accurate text, any language — where global models produce gibberish • Any background from a prompt — text is optional (empty → a pure image) • No GPU, no NPU — runs on plain CPU + RAM via the POCKET-Core engine • Measured footprint: 8.6 GB (RTX 3050/4060) · 4.5 GB (offloaded, 6 GB cards) · 13.4 GB (MacBook, 16 GB+) • Windows · macOS · Linux · fully local, no cloud
Built on the open, commercial-friendly Z-Image (Apache-2.0) foundation.
Honest note: the text is the guaranteed-correct part — the surrounding scene is ordinary generation, so a busy foreground can crowd the letters. We say so; clean backgrounds stay razor-sharp.
📱 POCKET — a 35-billion-parameter model that runs on your iPhone, and on your PC with no GPU
We're releasing POCKET, VIDRAFT's flagship Darwin-36B-Opus compressed for on-device use. No fork, no CUDA, no cloud — it runs on stock llama.cpp. It's a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model (256 experts, only 8 active per token), so the file can be large while the work per token stays small. That's what lets a 35B model run on a phone, and generate fast on a CPU with no graphics card.
Measured (POCKET-35B IQ1_M vs Bonsai-27B Q1_0): • CPU generate (Xeon, 16 threads): 27.0 vs 10.1 tok/s → 2.69× faster • GPU generate (H100): 197 vs 89 tok/s → 2.22× faster • GPU prompt processing (H100): 753 vs 1816 → 0.41× (Bonsai wins this one — MoE prefill wakes every expert, so sparsity stops helping there. We say so.) • Quality (HellaSwag, 400 q): 61.0% vs 60.0% → a tie (confidence intervals overlap)
On a real consumer laptop — MacBook M3 Pro (18 GB) — POCKET wins every axis, prompt processing included: • Metal generate: 25.4 vs 12.8 → 1.99× • CPU generate: 13.8 vs 4.4 → 3.13× • Metal prompt: 240.7 vs 73.4 → 3.28×
One more quiet fact: the same-size, quality-oriented rival Ternary-Bonsai-27B (7.2 GB) fails to load in upstream llama.cpp at all — it needs the PrismML fork. POCKET runs on the tools you already have: LM Studio, Ollama, PocketPal, MLX.
A small gift for anyone building or studying foundation models.
Most "open" models hand you the weights and stop there. With Aether-7B-5Attn we wanted to hand over the whole thing — so you can actually learn from it, reproduce it, and build on it: the data recipe, the training code, every hyperparameter, the complete logs, and the intermediate checkpoints. All Apache-2.0, reproducible byte-for-byte.
What you can do with it: 🔁 Rebuild it from scratch, or fork the recipe for your own model 🔬 Study a real heterogeneous-attention MoE — 49 layers place 5 attention mechanisms on a 7×7 Latin square, arranged as a clean, attributable ablation 📈 Trace training dynamics across the released checkpoints (110k / 115k / 162k)
It's a modest 6.59B model, and an honest one — the limitations (no KV-cache in this build, small scale) are written right in the card. We're not claiming it's special. If any piece of it saves you time or teaches you something, that's exactly what we hoped for. 🤗