NextStep-1

14B autoregressive image generation model that rivals top diffusion systems. ICLR 2026 Oral. Includes NextStep-1-Edit for instruction-based image editing.

HuggingFace GitHub Paper (arXiv)Project Page

Outputs 2

model

14B autoregressive image generation model that rivals top diffusion systems. Includes NextStep-1-Edit for instruction-based image editing.

HuggingFace GitHub

Architecture DENSE

Parameters 14B

Code and model weights released Aug 14, 2025. NextStep-1.1 released Dec 24, 2025.

NextStep-1: SOTA Autoregressive Image Generation with Continuous Tokens

paper

Breakthrough research on AR modeling for visual tasks.

Paper (arXiv)Project Page

Venue: ICLR 2026

arXiv submission Aug 14, 2025. ICLR 2026 Oral.

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