Comment by dragonwriter

The samples (and this may or may not be completely fair, either set could be more cherry picked than the other, It would be interesting to see a side-by-side comparison with comparable prompts) seem significantly worse than what I’ve seen from WAN 2.1 1.3B, which is both fron the previous WAN version and is smaller, proportionally, compared to Apple’s 7B than that model itself is compared to the 28B combination of the high and low noise 14B WAN 2.2 models that are typically used together.

But also, Starflow-V is a research model with a substandard text encoder, it doesn't have to be competitive as-is to be an interesting spur for further research on the new architecture it presents. (Though it would be nice if it had some aspect where it offered a clear improvement.)