What is Mann-E?

Mann-E (Persian: مانی) was a generative artificial intelligence platform (or Generative AI for short) with specialization on making images, videos and 3D objects with the help of Open Source and also state of the art AI models.

Mann-E has been founded in 2023 by Muhammadreza Haghiri (Persian: محمدرضا حقیری) and went dark on December 26th 2025 as a consumer facing product although we’re still providing business facing and research services to companies and people who want to build on top of our research.

How was Mann-E different from the other generative platforms?

First, we were working on our own models which were based on VQGAN (more specific VQGAN+CLIP which provides the option of using text to image functionality with VQGAN) and then we moved to better bases such as Stable Diffusion by Stability AI and Stable Diffusion 1.5 by Runway ML and started making finetunes, LoRA’s and model merges and made our base models better and better.

We also offered some sort of knowledge distillation on top Midjourney which was simply generating huge sets of data on top of midjourney, then use it to finetune our latest models. After a year of activity, we’ve just moved to Stable Diffusion XL since it was a big model and after managing to have partnerships and support from companies such as Runware, Runpod and Modal and also getting edge computing services from Fal AI we moved all of our base models to FLUX.

Since Fal, Runware, etc. let us use FLUX models commercially, we just tried to do the same exact formula on FLUX base and honestly, we’ve been successful to some extent. Later on, we also provided other generative models as well (as an API based service) but we emphasized that people use our own models to help us improve.

Why the platform faced a shut down?

It wasn’t an easy decision to make. We’ve made decision of shutting it down just because the space is super competitive and if you’re not manage to make a FOMO (Fear of missing out) like what Google does, you lose. We just decided to shut things up right before it goes too dark and uncontrollable.