 | I curate a weekly multimodal AI roundup, here are the local/open-source highlights from last week: FlashMotion - Controllable Video Generation
https://reddit.com/link/1rwuxs1/video/d9qi6xl0mqpg1/player Foundation 1 - Music Production Model https://reddit.com/link/1rwuxs1/video/y6wtywk1mqpg1/player GlyphPrinter - Accurate Text Rendering for Image Gen
MatAnyone 2 - Video Object Matting
https://reddit.com/link/1rwuxs1/video/4uzxhij3mqpg1/player ViFeEdit - Video Editing from Image Pairs
https://reddit.com/link/1rwuxs1/video/yajih834mqpg1/player Anima Preview 2
LTX-2.3 Colorizer LoRA
Honorable mention: MJ1 - 3B Multimodal Judge (code not yet available but impressive results for 3B active)
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Last Week in Multimodal AI - Local Edition
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 3/18/2026
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Key Points
- The post is a local/open-source roundup of recent multimodal AI tools and models from last week, highlighting several projects and where to find their resources.
- FlashMotion claims a 50x speedup over state-of-the-art methods for controllable video generation on Wan2.2-TI2V with multi-object box/mask guidance, and provides weights.
- Foundation 1 presents a text-to-sample music production model that runs on 7 GB VRAM, with links to a post and weights for access.
- GlyphPrinter offers glyph-accurate multilingual text rendering for image generation, handling complex Chinese characters with open weights.
- The roundup also notes MatAnyone 2 for video object matting (open code and demo) and ViFeEdit for editing video from image pairs (no video training needed), both with code and demos.
