I agree that the messaging isn’t the best in the application about the downloading, but it didn’t make sense to push back the release by a few months when the core value proposition (a major increase in speed for most users) is ready to ship. Once they’re downloaded, they’re downloaded, so it quickly becomes a non-issue for most users.

It didn’t make sense for us to push back the Gigapixel AI release with the new AI engine another 2-3 months just to make sure the model downloading messaging / interface is easier to use.

We did have to fundamentally change the model processing pipeline which is causing confusion and up-front frustration, but this would happen no matter what route we took. This is an intermediary step before the model repository is put in, but that takes time. Why ship with 10GB of files when most users will only use half of them? We can add that to the online installer, but then there’d be no way to support a full installer - it fundamentally changes the way we package and ship our products. The 100GB is for all supported hardware at every scale. There’s no way to just drop the models for your specific hardware during install. I find it hard to believe that 100 GB is what one needs for enlarging photos.

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