Microsoft launches Mage: 4‑billion‑parameter multimodal models that rival 20B‑plus systems
Mage delivers a 4 B‑parameter vision‑language model and a text‑to‑image diffusion stack that match or beat much larger open models while running on a single A100. Its compact VAE and native‑resolution diffusion cut compute and speed up training, and checkpoints are now on Hugging Face.