Show HN: I'm building an open source alternative to Topaz Photo AI
TL;DR
Before I start, I know that many people, including myself, have an aversion to "AI apps" nowadays, because these projects are often just thin wrappers around ChatGPT's API to do the heavy lifting. This is not one of those projects. In this case, all the AI logic in my project is implemented directly: data pre-processing, post-processing, inference, tiling, tensor operations, and everything in between are handled entirely within the project, with no external API doing the heavy lifting.
Nauti's Take
A real from-scratch AI project – no API wrappers, no shortcuts. Someone actually implemented tiling, tensor ops and inference themselves to challenge Topaz's $200 paywall.
This is what 'open source AI' should look like.
Briefingshow
Proves serious CV/ML tooling can be built open-source without leaning on foundation model APIs – a template for future projects.
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