Agate Preview 001
Agate Preview 001 is a 260-million-parameter text-to-image model that generates 256 × 256 images from English prompts. Its weights are available under the MIT licence, and the release is identified as a research preview.
What it does
Use it to generate images such as icons, logo concepts, and layout drafts on a consumer GPU or in a browser.
- Availability
- Research preview; weights and code available on Hugging Face
- Pricing model
- Not established
- Deployment
- Runs locally; also runs in the browser with WebGPU
- Privacy
- Prompts and images never leave the machine when run on-device
- Licence
- MIT for code and weights
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Evidence
5 claims- Agate is a text-to-image model that generates images at 256 × 256 from English prompts. [1]
**Agate is a 260M-parameter text-to-image model trained from scratch in 145 GPU-hours.** It scores
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model is available as a research preview with code and weights on Hugging Face. [1]
- Agate can run locally and has a browser demo using WebGPU. [1]
- The code and weights are released under the MIT licence. [1]
| **Licence** | MIT, for code and weights |
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The release describes Agate as a preview checkpoint that has not yet converged. [1]
**A preview: not yet converged.** Agate is a preview checkpoint, and it has not finished learning.
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights.
Sources
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https://huggingface.co/Logolabs/agate-preview-001
Retrieved 2026-10-28 00:27 UTC
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Versions
5| Version | Effective | Change | Changed fields | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2026-10-26 01:36 UTC | evidence update | score | Current |
| 4 | 2026-09-30 21:28 UTC | material change | pricing, availability, deployment, privacy | Current |
| 3 | 2026-09-29 22:21 UTC | material change | access, availability, deployment | Current |
| 2 | 2026-09-27 01:01 UTC | material change | access, deployment, pricing, availability, deployment | Current |
| 1 | 2026-09-26 01:54 UTC | publication | None | Current |
In briefs
2- New models and tools focus on typed decisions and long-context tasks Weekly brief 2026-W39
- GitHub adds controls for Copilot code review and local sandboxing Daily brief 2026-09-26
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