Tried a bit, and while it is very impressive for 0.2B model it would be very hard to convince me that this matches with 10B models. It did work reasonably well with natural images but inpainted regions were visibly smoother than surroundings, and performed very badly on novel objects. It is also limited to 512x512 output, which limits its practical usefulness.
lifthrasiir
I did an inpainting project for a client a few years ago. They were trying to inpaint banner ads for concert promoters, and find a way to make it easy to produce a bunch of different sized ads for a variety of placements. I was tasked with inpainting Xmas themed ad for a few major singers.
The weirdest thing was when the inpainting tool added strange people to an image. This singer was all decked out in tinsel and red, and the inpainting model added a grumpy old man in a top hat. I don't recall clicking the "Add creepy old man" button.
At the time this was Stable Diffusion on the backend, run by a variety of model hosting services, Amazon being one. They all had different requirements for the input image and that made things really complex. For some the aspect ratio was impossible to meet, and it would fail if the banner was 200x60. For others, you had to resize it before input, which meant you were adding an image with poor resolution to start. Garbage in, garbage out.
All of this to say, there is a lot of preproduction that went into it, and the client never ended up using my attempts.
What is inpainting? Everyone in the comments seems to be familiar with the term, and I don’t see it described in the linked page.
chatmasta
Not great. The inpainted areas are, as usual, very smooth compared to the detailed, "high frequency" look of natural photos.
Barely useful enough to erase things in thumbnails.
Zopieux
I want a version of this for manga (for translation). Right now I think the go-to lightweight inpainting model for anime and manga is LaMa which is several years old now and it feels like there is room for improvement.
pattilupone
This is the useful AI stuf. There’s so many usecases this makes possible.
delis-thumbs-7e
I don't understand. Is it available somewhere to try or is it just an ad?
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(Claude Code transcript: https://gisthost.github.io/?58039ba5c1ca3ed177e8659168996ee4)
Wrote this up in more detail on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/porting-moebius/
simonw
lifthrasiir
The weirdest thing was when the inpainting tool added strange people to an image. This singer was all decked out in tinsel and red, and the inpainting model added a grumpy old man in a top hat. I don't recall clicking the "Add creepy old man" button.
At the time this was Stable Diffusion on the backend, run by a variety of model hosting services, Amazon being one. They all had different requirements for the input image and that made things really complex. For some the aspect ratio was impossible to meet, and it would fail if the banner was 200x60. For others, you had to resize it before input, which meant you were adding an image with poor resolution to start. Garbage in, garbage out.
All of this to say, there is a lot of preproduction that went into it, and the client never ended up using my attempts.
xrd
james2doyle
https://inpaintlab.com/
nickandbro
chatmasta
Barely useful enough to erase things in thumbnails.
Zopieux
pattilupone
delis-thumbs-7e
NooneAtAll3