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@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ photography — these validate that the pipeline *runs* and how fast.
 A full-quality `brush_train` run is 30000 steps (the default) — expect minutes,
 and a much crisper splat than the 1500-step preview above.
 
+## Image generation (local, validated)
+| Operator | Config | Result |
+|---|---|---|
+| `flux_local` | **FLUX.2 Klein 4B**, 4 steps, 1024×1024, seed 42, MLX | **~8s generation** (2.0 s/step), 17.95GB peak MLX memory, quality clearly production-viable for concept/product shots. One-time weights download ~15GB took ~4m50s (unauthenticated HF; an HF token in Settings speeds this up). Job `adef87d4a5dd`, 2026-07-12 — believed to be among the first published M3 Ultra mflux FLUX.2 numbers |
+
+Warm-model runs are the ~8s figure; each new model variant pays its download once.
+
 ## Mesh-gen (installed; first real run blocked on owner HuggingFace auth)
 | Operator | Install | Runtime status |
 |---|---|---|