diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9c3b1bd..0098f10 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
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+dependencies = [
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+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
+]
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+ "syn 2.0.59",
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+ "syn 2.0.59",
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+ "arrayvec",
+ "log",
+ "nom",
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+ "v_frame",
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+dependencies = [
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+]
+
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+ "itertools 0.12.1",
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+ "syn 2.0.59",
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+ "num-traits",
+ "num_cpus",
+ "rand 0.8.5",
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+ "rayon",
+ "safetensors",
+ "thiserror",
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+ "half",
+ "num-traits",
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+ "candle-nn",
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+ "rand 0.8.5",
+ "rayon",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_plain",
+ "tracing",
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+ "syn 2.0.59",
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+ "syn 2.0.59",
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+ "syn 2.0.59",
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+
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+ "async-trait",
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  "derive_more",
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  "num_cpus",
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- "rubato 0.14.1",
+ "rubato",
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@@ -1408,6 +1619,22 @@ dependencies = [
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+ "candle-transformers",
+ "edgen_core",
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+ "rand 0.8.5",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokenizers",
+ "tokio",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
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@@ -1453,6 +1680,7 @@ dependencies = [
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  "edgen_core",
  "edgen_rt_chat_faker",
+ "edgen_rt_image_generation_candle",
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  "once_cell",
  "pin-project",
- "reqwest",
- "rubato 0.15.0",
+ "reqwest 0.12.3",
+ "rubato",
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  "serde_derive",
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@@ -1535,6 +1763,18 @@ dependencies = [
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+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
+]
+
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+
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+ "flume 0.11.0",
+ "half",
+ "lebe",
+ "miniz_oxide",
+ "rayon-core",
+ "smallvec",
+ "zune-inflate",
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+
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+ "memoffset",
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+dependencies = [
+ "spin",
+]
+
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+ "gemm-f32",
+ "gemm-f64",
+ "num-complex",
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@@ -5637,7 +6581,7 @@ checksum = "34704c8d6ebcbc939824180af020566b01a7c01f80641264eba0999f6c2b6be7"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.50",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5746,6 +6690,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "tinyvec",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-normalization-alignments"
+version = "0.1.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "43f613e4fa046e69818dd287fdc4bc78175ff20331479dab6e1b0f98d57062de"
+dependencies = [
+ "smallvec",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-segmentation"
 version = "1.11.0"
@@ -5758,6 +6711,12 @@ version = "0.1.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e51733f11c9c4f72aa0c160008246859e340b00807569a0da0e7a1079b27ba85"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode_categories"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "39ec24b3121d976906ece63c9daad25b85969647682eee313cb5779fdd69e14e"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unsafe-libyaml"
 version = "0.2.10"
@@ -5830,7 +6789,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "proc-macro-error",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.50",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5843,6 +6802,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "v_frame"
+version = "0.3.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d6f32aaa24bacd11e488aa9ba66369c7cd514885742c9fe08cfe85884db3e92b"
+dependencies = [
+ "aligned-vec",
+ "num-traits",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "valuable"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -5951,7 +6921,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.50",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
  "wasm-bindgen-shared",
 ]
 
@@ -5985,7 +6955,7 @@ checksum = "642f325be6301eb8107a83d12a8ac6c1e1c54345a7ef1a9261962dfefda09e66"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.50",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
  "wasm-bindgen-backend",
  "wasm-bindgen-shared",
 ]
@@ -6113,6 +7083,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-metadata",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "weezl"
+version = "0.1.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "53a85b86a771b1c87058196170769dd264f66c0782acf1ae6cc51bfd64b39082"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "which"
 version = "4.4.2"
@@ -6551,6 +7527,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winreg"
+version = "0.52.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a277a57398d4bfa075df44f501a17cfdf8542d224f0d36095a2adc7aee4ef0a5"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wry"
 version = "0.24.7"
@@ -6627,6 +7613,30 @@ version = "0.5.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "09041cd90cf85f7f8b2df60c646f853b7f535ce68f85244eb6731cf89fa498ec"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "yoke"
+version = "0.7.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "65e71b2e4f287f467794c671e2b8f8a5f3716b3c829079a1c44740148eff07e4"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "stable_deref_trait",
+ "yoke-derive",
+ "zerofrom",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "yoke-derive"
+version = "0.7.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9e6936f0cce458098a201c245a11bef556c6a0181129c7034d10d76d1ec3a2b8"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
+ "synstructure",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zerocopy"
 version = "0.7.32"
@@ -6644,7 +7654,28 @@ checksum = "9ce1b18ccd8e73a9321186f97e46f9f04b778851177567b1975109d26a08d2a6"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.50",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerofrom"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "655b0814c5c0b19ade497851070c640773304939a6c0fd5f5fb43da0696d05b7"
+dependencies = [
+ "zerofrom-derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerofrom-derive"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e6a647510471d372f2e6c2e6b7219e44d8c574d24fdc11c610a61455782f18c3"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.59",
+ "synstructure",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6663,3 +7694,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "crc32fast",
  "crossbeam-utils",
 ]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zune-core"
+version = "0.4.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3f423a2c17029964870cfaabb1f13dfab7d092a62a29a89264f4d36990ca414a"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zune-inflate"
+version = "0.2.54"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "73ab332fe2f6680068f3582b16a24f90ad7096d5d39b974d1c0aff0125116f02"
+dependencies = [
+ "simd-adler32",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zune-jpeg"
+version = "0.4.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ec866b44a2a1fd6133d363f073ca1b179f438f99e7e5bfb1e33f7181facfe448"
+dependencies = [
+ "zune-core",
+]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 18add69..ed260a1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ members = [
     "crates/edgen_core",
     "crates/edgen_server",
     "crates/edgen_async_compat",
+    "crates/edgen_rt_image_generation_candle",
     "crates/edgen_rt_llama_cpp",
     "crates/edgen_rt_whisper_cpp",
     "crates/edgen_rt_chat_faker",
-    "edgen/src-tauri"
+    "edgen/src-tauri",
 ]
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ ahash = "0.8.6"
 argh = "0.1.12"
 async-executor = "1.6.0"
 async-task = "4.5.0"
+async-trait = "0.1.80"
 axum = "0.7.1"
 blake3 = "1.5.0"
 cfg-if = "1.0.0"
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ either = "1.9.0"
 flume = "0.11.0"
 futures = "0.3.29"
 futures-lite = "2.0.1"
-glommio = "0.8.0"
+glommio = "0.9.0"
 hyper = "1.0.1"
 hyper-util = "0.1.1"
 link-cplusplus = "1.0.9"
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ once_cell = "1.18.0"
 pin-project = "1.1.3"
 prost = "0.12.2"
 prost-build = "0.12.2"
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.22", default-features = false }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.3", default-features = false }
 serde = "1.0.193"
 serde_derive = "1.0.193"
 serde_json = "1.0.108"
diff --git a/crates/edgen_core/Cargo.toml b/crates/edgen_core/Cargo.toml
index 8a306ec..a011dde 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/edgen_core/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
 ahash = { workspace = true }
+async-trait = { workspace = true }
 dashmap = { workspace = true }
 directories = { workspace = true }
 derive_more = { workspace = true }
@@ -12,11 +13,11 @@ edgen_async_compat = { path = "../edgen_async_compat", features = ["runtime-toki
 notify = { workspace = true }
 num_cpus = { workspace = true }
 once_cell = { workspace = true }
-rubato = "0.14.1"
+rubato = "0.15.0"
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_yaml = { workspace = true }
 smol = { workspace = true }
-symphonia = { version = "0.5.3", features = ["all-codecs", "all-formats"] }
+symphonia = { version = "0.5.4", features = ["all-codecs", "all-formats"] }
 time = { workspace = true }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
 futures = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/edgen_core/src/image_generation.rs b/crates/edgen_core/src/image_generation.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c88cf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/edgen_core/src/image_generation.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+use serde::Serialize;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use thiserror::Error;
+
+pub struct ImageGenerationArgs {
+    pub prompt: String,
+    pub uncond_prompt: String,
+    pub width: Option<usize>,
+    pub height: Option<usize>,
+    pub steps: usize,
+    pub images: u32,
+    pub seed: Option<u64>,
+    pub guidance_scale: f64,
+    pub vae_scale: f64,
+}
+
+pub struct ModelFiles {
+    pub tokenizer: PathBuf,
+    pub clip_weights: PathBuf,
+    pub clip2_weights: Option<PathBuf>,
+    pub vae_weights: PathBuf,
+    pub unet_weights: PathBuf,
+}
+
+#[derive(Serialize, Error, Debug)]
+pub enum ImageGenerationEndpointError {
+    #[error("Could not load model: {0}")]
+    Load(String),
+    #[error("Failed to tokenize prompts: {0}")]
+    Decoding(String),
+    #[error("Failed to generate image: {0}")]
+    Generation(String),
+    #[error("Could not convert the output tensor into an encoded image")]
+    Encoding(String),
+}
+
+#[async_trait::async_trait]
+pub trait ImageGenerationEndpoint {
+    async fn generate_image(
+        &self,
+        model: ModelFiles,
+        args: ImageGenerationArgs,
+    ) -> Result<Vec<Vec<u8>>, ImageGenerationEndpointError>;
+}
diff --git a/crates/edgen_core/src/lib.rs b/crates/edgen_core/src/lib.rs
index da16cc6..e6cd4df 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/edgen_core/src/lib.rs
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ pub mod whisper;
 
 pub mod settings;
 
+pub mod image_generation;
 pub mod perishable;
 
 /// A generic [`Box`]ed [`Future`], used to emulate `async` functions in traits.
diff --git a/crates/edgen_core/src/settings.rs b/crates/edgen_core/src/settings.rs
index da23ccd..c7504f8 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_core/src/settings.rs
+++ b/crates/edgen_core/src/settings.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ const FILE_NAME: &str = "edgen.conf";
 // TODO look for a better way to do this, since [Settings] already uses a lock
 pub static SETTINGS: Lazy<RwLock<StaticSettings>> = Lazy::new(Default::default);
 
-/// The configuration, and data directories for Edgen.
+/// The configuration and data directories for Edgen.
 pub static PROJECT_DIRS: Lazy<ProjectDirs> =
     Lazy::new(|| ProjectDirs::from("com", "EdgenAI", "Edgen").unwrap());
 pub static CONFIG_FILE: Lazy<PathBuf> = Lazy::new(build_config_file_path);
@@ -145,6 +145,18 @@ pub async fn embeddings_dir() -> String {
         .to_string()
 }
 
+/// Helper to get the image generation model directory.
+pub async fn image_generation_dir() -> String {
+    SETTINGS
+        .read()
+        .await
+        .read()
+        .await
+        .image_generation_models_dir
+        .trim()
+        .to_string()
+}
+
 /// Helper to get the chat completions model name.
 pub async fn chat_completions_name() -> String {
     SETTINGS
@@ -288,6 +300,8 @@ pub struct SettingsParams {
     /// The embeddings repo that Edgen will use for downloads
     pub embeddings_model_repo: String,
 
+    pub image_generation_models_dir: String,
+
     /// The policy used to decided if models/session should be allocated and run on acceleration
     /// hardware.
     pub gpu_policy: DevicePolicy,
@@ -325,6 +339,8 @@ impl Default for SettingsParams {
             "transcriptions",
         ]));
         let embeddings_dir = data_dir.join(&join_path_components(&["models", "embeddings"]));
+        let image_generation_dir =
+            data_dir.join(&join_path_components(&["models", "image", "generation"]));
 
         let chat_completions_str = chat_completions_dir.into_os_string().into_string().unwrap();
         let audio_transcriptions_str = audio_transcriptions_dir
@@ -332,6 +348,7 @@ impl Default for SettingsParams {
             .into_string()
             .unwrap();
         let embeddings_str = embeddings_dir.into_os_string().into_string().unwrap();
+        let image_generation_str = image_generation_dir.into_os_string().into_string().unwrap();
 
         let cpus = num_cpus::get_physical();
         let threads = if cpus > 1 { cpus - 1 } else { 1 };
@@ -349,6 +366,7 @@ impl Default for SettingsParams {
             embeddings_model_name: "nomic-embed-text-v1.5.f16.gguf".to_string(),
             embeddings_model_repo: "nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF".to_string(),
             embeddings_models_dir: embeddings_str,
+            image_generation_models_dir: image_generation_str,
             // TODO detect if the system has acceleration hardware to decide the default
             gpu_policy: DevicePolicy::AlwaysDevice {
                 overflow_to_cpu: true,
diff --git a/crates/edgen_rt_image_generation_candle/Cargo.toml b/crates/edgen_rt_image_generation_candle/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d8f557
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/edgen_rt_image_generation_candle/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[package]
+name = "edgen_rt_image_generation_candle"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+[dependencies]
+async-trait = { workspace = true }
+candle-core = "0.4.1"
+candle-transformers = "0.4.1"
+edgen_core = { path = "../edgen_core" }
+image = "0.25.1"
+rand = "0.8.5"
+thiserror = { workspace = true }
+# https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers/issues/1454
+tokenizers = { version = "0.19.1", default-features = false, features = ["progressbar", "onig"] }
+tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["sync", "rt", "fs"] }
+tracing = { workspace = true }
+
+[features]
+cuda = ["candle-core/cuda", "candle-transformers/cuda"]
diff --git a/crates/edgen_rt_image_generation_candle/src/lib.rs b/crates/edgen_rt_image_generation_candle/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c238b7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/edgen_rt_image_generation_candle/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,281 @@
+use std::io::BufWriter;
+use std::io::{Cursor, IntoInnerError};
+use std::path::Path;
+
+use candle_core::backend::BackendDevice;
+use candle_core::{CudaDevice, DType, Device, IndexOp, Module, Tensor, D};
+use candle_transformers::models::stable_diffusion;
+use candle_transformers::models::stable_diffusion::vae::AutoEncoderKL;
+use image::{ImageBuffer, ImageError, ImageFormat, Rgb};
+use thiserror::Error;
+use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
+
+use edgen_core::image_generation::{
+    ImageGenerationArgs, ImageGenerationEndpoint, ImageGenerationEndpointError, ModelFiles,
+};
+use edgen_core::settings::{DevicePolicy, SETTINGS};
+use rand::random;
+use tracing::{debug, info, info_span, warn};
+
+#[derive(Error, Debug)]
+enum CandleError {
+    #[error("The prompt is too long, {len} > max-tokens ({max})")]
+    PromptTooLong { len: usize, max: usize },
+    #[error("No clip2 available for the configuration")]
+    Clip2Unavailable,
+    #[error("Output has wrong number of dimensions, got {dims}, but expected {expected}")]
+    BadDims { dims: usize, expected: usize },
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Candle(#[from] candle_core::Error),
+    #[error("Tokenizer error: {0}")]
+    Tokenizer(String),
+    #[error("Could not create image buffer from tensor output")]
+    BadOutput,
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    EncodeProcessFailed(#[from] ImageError),
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    EncodeWriteFailed(#[from] IntoInnerError<BufWriter<Cursor<Vec<u8>>>>),
+}
+
+fn text_embeddings(
+    prompt: &str,
+    uncond_prompt: &str,
+    tokenizer: impl AsRef<Path>,
+    clip_weights: impl AsRef<Path>,
+    config: &stable_diffusion::StableDiffusionConfig,
+    device: &Device,
+    dtype: DType,
+    use_guide_scale: bool,
+    first_clip: bool,
+) -> Result<Tensor, CandleError> {
+    let tokenizer =
+        Tokenizer::from_file(tokenizer).map_err(|e| CandleError::Tokenizer(e.to_string()))?;
+    let pad_id = match &config.clip.pad_with {
+        Some(padding) => *tokenizer.get_vocab(true).get(padding.as_str()).unwrap(),
+        None => *tokenizer.get_vocab(true).get("<|endoftext|>").unwrap(),
+    };
+
+    let mut tokens = tokenizer
+        .encode(prompt, true)
+        .map_err(|e| CandleError::Tokenizer(e.to_string()))?
+        .get_ids()
+        .to_vec();
+    if tokens.len() > config.clip.max_position_embeddings {
+        return Err(CandleError::PromptTooLong {
+            len: tokens.len(),
+            max: config.clip.max_position_embeddings,
+        });
+    }
+    while tokens.len() < config.clip.max_position_embeddings {
+        tokens.push(pad_id)
+    }
+    let tokens = Tensor::new(tokens.as_slice(), device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+
+    let clip_config = if first_clip {
+        &config.clip
+    } else {
+        config.clip2.as_ref().ok_or(CandleError::Clip2Unavailable)?
+    };
+    let text_model =
+        stable_diffusion::build_clip_transformer(clip_config, clip_weights, device, DType::F32)?;
+    let text_embeddings = text_model.forward(&tokens)?;
+
+    let text_embeddings = if use_guide_scale {
+        let mut uncond_tokens = tokenizer
+            .encode(uncond_prompt, true)
+            .map_err(|e| CandleError::Tokenizer(e.to_string()))?
+            .get_ids()
+            .to_vec();
+        if uncond_tokens.len() > config.clip.max_position_embeddings {
+            return Err(CandleError::PromptTooLong {
+                len: uncond_tokens.len(),
+                max: config.clip.max_position_embeddings,
+            });
+        }
+        while uncond_tokens.len() < config.clip.max_position_embeddings {
+            uncond_tokens.push(pad_id)
+        }
+
+        let uncond_tokens = Tensor::new(uncond_tokens.as_slice(), device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+        let uncond_embeddings = text_model.forward(&uncond_tokens)?;
+
+        Tensor::cat(&[uncond_embeddings, text_embeddings], 0)?.to_dtype(dtype)?
+    } else {
+        text_embeddings.to_dtype(dtype)?
+    };
+    Ok(text_embeddings)
+}
+
+fn to_bitmap(
+    vae: &AutoEncoderKL,
+    latents: &Tensor,
+    vae_scale: f64,
+    bsize: usize,
+) -> Result<Vec<Vec<u8>>, CandleError> {
+    let images = vae.decode(&(latents / vae_scale)?)?;
+    let images = ((images / 2.)? + 0.5)?.to_device(&Device::Cpu)?;
+    let images = (images.clamp(0f32, 1.)? * 255.)?.to_dtype(DType::U8)?;
+    let mut res = vec![];
+    res.reserve(bsize);
+    for batch in 0..bsize {
+        let image = images.i(batch)?;
+        let (channel, height, width) = image.dims3()?;
+        if channel != 3 {
+            return Err(CandleError::BadDims {
+                dims: channel,
+                expected: 3,
+            });
+        }
+        let img = image.permute((1, 2, 0))?.flatten_all()?;
+        let pixels = img.to_vec1::<u8>()?;
+        let buf = ImageBuffer::<Rgb<u8>, _>::from_vec(width as u32, height as u32, pixels)
+            .ok_or(CandleError::BadOutput)?;
+        let mut encoded = BufWriter::new(Cursor::new(Vec::new()));
+        buf.write_to(&mut encoded, ImageFormat::Png)?;
+        res.push(encoded.into_inner()?.into_inner());
+    }
+    Ok(res)
+}
+
+fn generate_image(
+    model: ModelFiles,
+    args: ImageGenerationArgs,
+    device_policy: &DevicePolicy,
+) -> Result<Vec<Vec<u8>>, CandleError> {
+    let _span = info_span!("gen_image", images = args.images, steps = args.steps).entered();
+    let config = stable_diffusion::StableDiffusionConfig::v2_1(None, args.height, args.width);
+    let scheduler = config.build_scheduler(args.steps)?;
+    let device = match device_policy {
+        DevicePolicy::AlwaysCpu { .. } => Device::Cpu,
+        DevicePolicy::AlwaysDevice { .. } => Device::Cuda(CudaDevice::new(0)?),
+        _ => {
+            warn!("Unknown device policy, executing on CPU");
+            Device::Cpu
+        }
+    };
+    let use_guide_scale = args.guidance_scale > 1.0;
+    let dtype = DType::F16;
+    let bsize = 1;
+
+    device.set_seed(args.seed.unwrap_or(random::<u64>()))?;
+
+    let which = if model.clip2_weights.is_some() {
+        vec![true, false]
+    } else {
+        vec![true]
+    };
+    let text_embeddings = which
+        .iter()
+        .map(|first| {
+            let clip = if *first {
+                &model.clip_weights
+            } else {
+                model.clip2_weights.as_ref().unwrap()
+            };
+            text_embeddings(
+                &args.prompt,
+                &args.uncond_prompt,
+                &model.tokenizer,
+                clip,
+                &config,
+                &device,
+                dtype,
+                use_guide_scale,
+                *first,
+            )
+        })
+        .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, CandleError>>()?;
+
+    let text_embeddings = Tensor::cat(&text_embeddings, D::Minus1)?;
+    let text_embeddings = text_embeddings.repeat((bsize, 1, 1))?;
+
+    let vae = config.build_vae(model.vae_weights, &device, dtype)?;
+    let unet = config.build_unet(model.unet_weights, &device, 4, false, dtype)?;
+
+    // This would be used in image to image scenarios
+    let t_start = 0;
+
+    let mut images = vec![];
+    images.reserve(args.images as usize);
+    for idx in 0..args.images {
+        let _span = info_span!("image", image_index = idx).entered();
+        info!("Generating image");
+        let timesteps = scheduler.timesteps();
+        let latents = Tensor::randn(
+            0f32,
+            1f32,
+            (bsize, 4, config.height / 8, config.width / 8),
+            &device,
+        )? * scheduler.init_noise_sigma();
+        let mut latents = latents?.to_dtype(dtype)?;
+
+        for (timestep_index, &timestep) in timesteps.iter().enumerate() {
+            debug!("Image generation step {timestep_index}");
+            if timestep_index < t_start {
+                continue;
+            }
+            let latent_model_input = if use_guide_scale {
+                Tensor::cat(&[&latents, &latents], 0)?
+            } else {
+                latents.clone()
+            };
+
+            let latent_model_input = scheduler.scale_model_input(latent_model_input, timestep)?;
+            let noise_pred =
+                unet.forward(&latent_model_input, timestep as f64, &text_embeddings)?;
+
+            let noise_pred = if use_guide_scale {
+                let noise_pred = noise_pred.chunk(2, 0)?;
+                let (noise_pred_uncond, noise_pred_text) = (&noise_pred[0], &noise_pred[1]);
+
+                (noise_pred_uncond
+                    + ((noise_pred_text - noise_pred_uncond)? * args.guidance_scale)?)?
+            } else {
+                noise_pred
+            };
+
+            latents = scheduler.step(&noise_pred, timestep, &latents)?;
+        }
+
+        images.extend(to_bitmap(&vae, &latents, args.vae_scale, bsize)?)
+    }
+
+    Ok(images)
+}
+
+pub struct CandleImageGenerationEndpoint {}
+
+#[async_trait::async_trait]
+impl ImageGenerationEndpoint for CandleImageGenerationEndpoint {
+    async fn generate_image(
+        &self,
+        model: ModelFiles,
+        args: ImageGenerationArgs,
+    ) -> Result<Vec<Vec<u8>>, ImageGenerationEndpointError> {
+        let policy = SETTINGS.read().await.read().await.gpu_policy.clone();
+        Ok(generate_image(model, args, &policy)?)
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<CandleError> for ImageGenerationEndpointError {
+    fn from(value: CandleError) -> Self {
+        match value {
+            CandleError::PromptTooLong { .. } => {
+                ImageGenerationEndpointError::Decoding(value.to_string())
+            }
+            CandleError::Clip2Unavailable => ImageGenerationEndpointError::Load(value.to_string()),
+            CandleError::BadDims { .. } => {
+                ImageGenerationEndpointError::Decoding(value.to_string())
+            }
+            CandleError::Candle(_) => ImageGenerationEndpointError::Generation(value.to_string()),
+            CandleError::Tokenizer(_) => ImageGenerationEndpointError::Decoding(value.to_string()),
+            CandleError::BadOutput => ImageGenerationEndpointError::Encoding(value.to_string()),
+            CandleError::EncodeProcessFailed(_) => {
+                ImageGenerationEndpointError::Encoding(value.to_string())
+            }
+            CandleError::EncodeWriteFailed(_) => {
+                ImageGenerationEndpointError::Encoding(value.to_string())
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/edgen_server/Cargo.toml b/crates/edgen_server/Cargo.toml
index 6c120f0..c9a9f8c 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/edgen_server/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ derive_more = { workspace = true }
 edgen_core = { path = "../edgen_core" }
 edgen_rt_chat_faker = { path = "../edgen_rt_chat_faker" }
 edgen_rt_llama_cpp = { path = "../edgen_rt_llama_cpp" }
+edgen_rt_image_generation_candle = { path = "../edgen_rt_image_generation_candle" }
 edgen_rt_whisper_cpp = { path = "../edgen_rt_whisper_cpp" }
 either = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 futures = { workspace = true }
@@ -52,3 +53,4 @@ llama_vulkan = ["edgen_rt_llama_cpp/vulkan"]
 llama_cuda = ["edgen_rt_llama_cpp/cuda"]
 llama_metal = ["edgen_rt_llama_cpp/metal"]
 whisper_cuda = ["edgen_rt_whisper_cpp/cuda"]
+candle_cuda = ["edgen_rt_image_generation_candle/cuda"]
diff --git a/crates/edgen_server/src/image_generation.rs b/crates/edgen_server/src/image_generation.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ada353
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/edgen_server/src/image_generation.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+use crate::audio::ChatCompletionError;
+use crate::model_descriptor::{ModelDescriptor, ModelDescriptorError, ModelPaths, Quantization};
+use axum::http::StatusCode;
+use axum::response::{IntoResponse, Response};
+use axum::Json;
+use edgen_core::image_generation::{
+    ImageGenerationArgs, ImageGenerationEndpoint, ImageGenerationEndpointError, ModelFiles,
+};
+use edgen_rt_image_generation_candle::CandleImageGenerationEndpoint;
+use serde_derive::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use std::borrow::Cow;
+use thiserror::Error;
+use utoipa::ToSchema;
+
+/// A request to generate images for the provided context.
+/// This request is not at all conformant with OpenAI's API, as that one is very bare-bones, lacking
+/// in many parameters that we need.
+///
+/// An `axum` handler, [`image_generation`][image_generation], is provided to handle this request.
+///
+/// [image_generation]: fn.image_generation.html
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, ToSchema)]
+pub struct CreateImageGenerationRequest<'a> {
+    /// The prompt to be used to generate the image.
+    pub prompt: Cow<'a, str>,
+
+    /// The model to use for generating completions.
+    pub model: Cow<'a, str>,
+
+    /// The width of the generated image.
+    pub width: Option<usize>,
+
+    /// The height of the generated image.
+    pub height: Option<usize>,
+
+    /// The optional unconditional prompt.
+    pub uncond_prompt: Option<Cow<'a, str>>,
+
+    /// The number of steps to be used in the diffusion process.
+    pub steps: Option<usize>,
+
+    /// The number of images to generate.
+    ///
+    /// Default: 1
+    pub images: Option<u32>,
+
+    /// The random number generator seed to used for the generation.
+    ///
+    /// By default, a random seed is used.
+    pub seed: Option<u64>,
+
+    /// The guidance scale to use for generation, that is, how much should the model follow the
+    /// prompt.
+    ///
+    /// Values below 1 disable guidance. (the prompt is ignored)
+    pub guidance_scale: Option<f64>,
+
+    /// The Variational Auto-Encoder scale to use for generation.
+    ///
+    /// This value should probably not be set.
+    pub vae_scale: Option<f64>,
+}
+
+/// This request is not at all conformant with OpenAI's API, as that one returns a URL to the
+/// generated image, and that is not possible for Edgen.
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, ToSchema)]
+pub struct ImageGenerationResponse {
+    /// A vector containing the byte data of the generated images.
+    pub images: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
+}
+
+/// An error condition raised by the image generation API.
+#[derive(Serialize, Error, ToSchema, Debug)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
+#[serde(tag = "error")]
+pub enum ImageGenerationError {
+    /// The provided model could not be loaded.
+    #[error("failed to load model: {0}")]
+    Model(#[from] ModelDescriptorError),
+    /// Some error has occured inside the endpoint.
+    #[error("endpoint error: {0}")]
+    Endpoint(#[from] ImageGenerationEndpointError),
+    /// This error should be unreachable.
+    #[error("Something went wrong")]
+    Unreachable,
+}
+
+impl IntoResponse for ImageGenerationError {
+    fn into_response(self) -> Response {
+        (StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, Json(self)).into_response()
+    }
+}
+
+/// POST `/v1/image/generations`: generate image for the provided parameters
+///
+/// The API of this endpoint is not at all conformant with OpenAI's API, as that one is very
+/// bare-bones, lacking  in many parameters that we need, and also returns an URL, which Edgen
+/// cannot do.
+///
+/// On failure, may raise a `500 Internal Server Error` with a JSON-encoded [`ImageGenerationError`]
+/// to the peer..
+#[utoipa::path(
+post,
+path = "/image/generations",
+request_body = CreateImageGenerationRequest,
+responses(
+(status = 200, description = "OK", body = ImageGenerationResponse),
+(status = 500, description = "unexpected internal server error", body = ImageGenerationError)
+),
+)]
+pub async fn generate_image(
+    Json(req): Json<CreateImageGenerationRequest<'_>>,
+) -> Result<impl IntoResponse, ImageGenerationError> {
+    let descriptor = crate::model_descriptor::get(req.model.as_ref())?;
+    let model_files;
+    let default_steps;
+    let default_vae_scale;
+    if let ModelDescriptor::StableDiffusion {
+        steps, vae_scale, ..
+    } = descriptor.value()
+    {
+        if let ModelPaths::StableDiffusion {
+            unet_weights,
+            vae_weights,
+            clip_weights,
+            clip2_weights,
+            tokenizer,
+        } = descriptor.preload_files(Quantization::F16).await?
+        {
+            model_files = ModelFiles {
+                tokenizer,
+                clip_weights,
+                clip2_weights,
+                vae_weights,
+                unet_weights,
+            };
+        } else {
+            return Err(ImageGenerationError::Unreachable);
+        }
+        default_steps = steps;
+        default_vae_scale = vae_scale;
+    } else {
+        return Err(ImageGenerationError::Unreachable);
+    };
+
+    let endpoint = CandleImageGenerationEndpoint {};
+    let images = endpoint
+        .generate_image(
+            model_files,
+            ImageGenerationArgs {
+                prompt: req.prompt.to_string(),
+                uncond_prompt: req.uncond_prompt.unwrap_or(Cow::from("")).to_string(),
+                width: req.width,
+                height: req.height,
+                steps: req.steps.unwrap_or(*default_steps),
+                images: req.images.unwrap_or(1),
+                seed: req.seed,
+                guidance_scale: req.guidance_scale.unwrap_or(7.5),
+                vae_scale: req.vae_scale.unwrap_or(*default_vae_scale),
+            },
+        )
+        .await?;
+
+    Ok(Json(ImageGenerationResponse { images }))
+}
diff --git a/crates/edgen_server/src/lib.rs b/crates/edgen_server/src/lib.rs
index 59b1cd6..bcfa9e7 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_server/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/edgen_server/src/lib.rs
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ pub mod misc;
 mod chat_faker;
 pub mod cli;
 pub mod graceful_shutdown;
+mod image_generation;
 mod llm;
 mod model;
+mod model_descriptor;
 pub mod model_man;
 pub mod openai_shim;
 mod routes;
@@ -181,6 +183,8 @@ async fn start_server(args: &cli::Serve) -> EdgenResult {
 
     settings::create_project_dirs().await.unwrap();
 
+    model_descriptor::init();
+
     while run_server(args).await? {
         info!("Settings have been updated, resetting environment")
     }
@@ -329,15 +333,16 @@ async fn run_server(args: &cli::Serve) -> Result<bool, types::EdgenError> {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
+    use std::fs::File;
+    use std::io::Write;
+    use std::path::Path;
+
     use axum::routing::post;
     use axum::Router;
     use axum_test::multipart;
     use axum_test::TestServer;
     use levenshtein;
     use serde_json::from_str;
-    use std::fs::File;
-    use std::io::Write;
-    use std::path::Path;
 
     use edgen_rt_chat_faker as chat_faker;
 
diff --git a/crates/edgen_server/src/model.rs b/crates/edgen_server/src/model.rs
index 2d0c134..3e66dc3 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_server/src/model.rs
+++ b/crates/edgen_server/src/model.rs
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ pub enum ModelKind {
     LLM,
     Whisper,
     ChatFaker,
+    ImageDiffusion,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ impl ModelPatterns {
                 ModelKind::LLM => &self.llama,
                 ModelKind::Whisper => &self.whisper,
                 ModelKind::ChatFaker => &self.chat_faker,
+                _ => todo!(),
             };
             find_model_kind(list, kind, &n, &mut v);
         }
@@ -333,6 +335,7 @@ async fn observe_download(
             status::observe_audio_transcriptions_progress(dir, size, download).await
         }
         Endpoint::Embeddings => status::observe_embeddings_progress(dir, size, download).await,
+        _ => tokio::task::spawn(async {}),
     }
 }
 
@@ -341,6 +344,7 @@ async fn report_start_of_download(ep: Endpoint) {
         Endpoint::ChatCompletions => status::set_chat_completions_download(true).await,
         Endpoint::AudioTranscriptions => status::set_audio_transcriptions_download(true).await,
         Endpoint::Embeddings => status::set_embeddings_download(true).await,
+        _ => {}
     }
 }
 
@@ -358,6 +362,7 @@ async fn report_end_of_download(ep: Endpoint) {
             status::set_embeddings_progress(100).await;
             status::set_embeddings_download(false).await;
         }
+        _ => {}
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/edgen_server/src/model_descriptor.rs b/crates/edgen_server/src/model_descriptor.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ed3116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/edgen_server/src/model_descriptor.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+use crate::model::{Model, ModelError, ModelKind};
+use crate::types::Endpoint;
+use dashmap::DashMap;
+use edgen_core::settings;
+use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use serde_derive::Serialize;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use thiserror::Error;
+
+static MODELS: Lazy<DashMap<String, ModelDescriptor>> = Lazy::new(Default::default);
+
+#[derive(Debug, Error, Serialize)]
+pub enum ModelDescriptorError {
+    #[error("The specified quantization level is not available for the model")]
+    QuantizationUnavailable,
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Preload(#[from] ModelError),
+    #[error("The specified model was not found")]
+    NotFound,
+}
+
+/// The descriptor of an artificial intelligence model, containing every bit of data required to
+/// execute the model.
+pub enum ModelDescriptor {
+    /// A stable diffusion model.
+    StableDiffusion {
+        /// The files that make up the model, indexed by quantization.
+        files: DashMap<Quantization, StableDiffusionFiles>,
+
+        /// The default number of diffusion steps for this model.
+        steps: usize,
+
+        /// The default Variational Auto-Encoder scale for this model.
+        vae_scale: f64,
+    },
+}
+
+pub struct StableDiffusionFiles {
+    unet_weights_repo: String,
+    unet_weights_file: String,
+    vae_weights_repo: String,
+    vae_weights_file: String,
+    clip_weights_repo: String,
+    clip_weights_file: String,
+    clip2_weights_repo: Option<String>,
+    clip2_weights_file: Option<String>,
+    tokenizer_repo: String,
+    tokenizer_file: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub enum Quantization {
+    Default,
+    F16,
+}
+
+pub enum ModelPaths {
+    StableDiffusion {
+        unet_weights: PathBuf,
+        vae_weights: PathBuf,
+        clip_weights: PathBuf,
+        clip2_weights: Option<PathBuf>,
+        tokenizer: PathBuf,
+    },
+}
+
+impl ModelDescriptor {
+    pub async fn preload_files(
+        &self,
+        quantization: Quantization,
+    ) -> Result<ModelPaths, ModelDescriptorError> {
+        let res = match self {
+            ModelDescriptor::StableDiffusion { files, .. } => {
+                let files = files.get(&quantization);
+                if files.is_none() {
+                    return Err(ModelDescriptorError::QuantizationUnavailable);
+                }
+                let files = files.unwrap();
+                let dir = PathBuf::from(settings::image_generation_dir().await);
+                let unet = {
+                    let mut unet = Model::new(
+                        ModelKind::ImageDiffusion,
+                        &files.unet_weights_file,
+                        &files.unet_weights_repo,
+                        &dir,
+                    );
+                    unet.preload(Endpoint::ImageGeneration).await?;
+                    unet.file_path()?
+                };
+                let vae = {
+                    let mut vae = Model::new(
+                        ModelKind::ImageDiffusion,
+                        &files.vae_weights_file,
+                        &files.vae_weights_repo,
+                        &dir,
+                    );
+                    vae.preload(Endpoint::ImageGeneration).await?;
+                    vae.file_path()?
+                };
+                let clip = {
+                    let mut clip = Model::new(
+                        ModelKind::ImageDiffusion,
+                        &files.clip_weights_file,
+                        &files.clip_weights_repo,
+                        &dir,
+                    );
+                    clip.preload(Endpoint::ImageGeneration).await?;
+                    clip.file_path()?
+                };
+                let clip2 = if files.clip2_weights_file.is_some() {
+                    let mut clip2 = Model::new(
+                        ModelKind::ImageDiffusion,
+                        files.clip2_weights_file.as_ref().unwrap(),
+                        files.clip2_weights_repo.as_ref().unwrap(),
+                        &dir,
+                    );
+                    clip2.preload(Endpoint::ImageGeneration).await?;
+                    Some(clip2.file_path()?)
+                } else {
+                    None
+                };
+                let tokenizer = {
+                    let mut tokenizer = Model::new(
+                        ModelKind::ImageDiffusion,
+                        &files.tokenizer_file,
+                        &files.tokenizer_repo,
+                        &dir,
+                    );
+                    tokenizer.preload(Endpoint::ImageGeneration).await?;
+                    tokenizer.file_path()?
+                };
+
+                ModelPaths::StableDiffusion {
+                    unet_weights: unet,
+                    vae_weights: vae,
+                    clip_weights: clip,
+                    clip2_weights: clip2,
+                    tokenizer,
+                }
+            }
+        };
+        Ok(res)
+    }
+}
+
+// This should pull its data for a config file or database, but for now this is fine
+pub fn init() {
+    let model_files = DashMap::new();
+    model_files.insert(
+        Quantization::Default,
+        StableDiffusionFiles {
+            tokenizer_repo: "openai/clip-vit-base-patch32".to_string(),
+            tokenizer_file: "tokenizer.json".to_string(),
+            clip_weights_repo: "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1".to_string(),
+            clip_weights_file: "text_encoder/model.safetensors".to_string(),
+            clip2_weights_repo: None,
+            clip2_weights_file: None,
+            vae_weights_repo: "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1".to_string(),
+            vae_weights_file: "vae/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors".to_string(),
+            unet_weights_repo: "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1".to_string(),
+            unet_weights_file: "unet/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors".to_string(),
+        },
+    );
+    model_files.insert(
+        Quantization::F16,
+        StableDiffusionFiles {
+            tokenizer_repo: "openai/clip-vit-base-patch32".to_string(),
+            tokenizer_file: "tokenizer.json".to_string(),
+            clip_weights_repo: "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1".to_string(),
+            clip_weights_file: "text_encoder/model.fp16.safetensors".to_string(),
+            clip2_weights_repo: None,
+            clip2_weights_file: None,
+            vae_weights_repo: "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1".to_string(),
+            vae_weights_file: "vae/diffusion_pytorch_model.fp16.safetensors".to_string(),
+            unet_weights_repo: "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1".to_string(),
+            unet_weights_file: "unet/diffusion_pytorch_model.fp16.safetensors".to_string(),
+        },
+    );
+    let model = ModelDescriptor::StableDiffusion {
+        files: model_files,
+        steps: 30,
+        vae_scale: 0.18215,
+    };
+    MODELS.insert("stable-diffusion-2-1".to_string(), model);
+}
+
+pub fn get(
+    model: &str,
+) -> Result<dashmap::mapref::one::Ref<String, ModelDescriptor>, ModelDescriptorError> {
+    MODELS.get(model).ok_or(ModelDescriptorError::NotFound)
+}
diff --git a/crates/edgen_server/src/openai_shim.rs b/crates/edgen_server/src/openai_shim.rs
index 2497a5f..b0a8e02 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_server/src/openai_shim.rs
+++ b/crates/edgen_server/src/openai_shim.rs
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ pub struct CreateChatCompletionRequest<'a> {
 
     /// How many choices to generate for each token in the output. `1` by default. You can use
     /// this to generate several sets of completions for the same prompt.
-    pub n: Option<f32>,
+    pub n: Option<u32>,
 
     /// A number in `[-2.0, 2.0]`. Positive values "increase the model's likelihood to talk about
     /// new topics."
diff --git a/crates/edgen_server/src/routes.rs b/crates/edgen_server/src/routes.rs
index ceb432e..9a86c30 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_server/src/routes.rs
+++ b/crates/edgen_server/src/routes.rs
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ use axum::{
 
 use tracing::warn;
 
-use crate::misc;
 use crate::model_man;
 use crate::openai_shim;
 use crate::status;
+use crate::{image_generation, misc};
 
 pub fn routes() -> Router {
     Router::new()
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ pub fn routes() -> Router {
             "/v1/audio/transcriptions",
             post(openai_shim::create_transcription),
         )
+        // ---- Image ----------------------------------------------------------
+        .route(
+            "/v1/image/generations",
+            post(image_generation::generate_image),
+        )
         // -- AI status endpoints ----------------------------------------------
         // ---- Chat -----------------------------------------------------------
         .route(
diff --git a/crates/edgen_server/src/types.rs b/crates/edgen_server/src/types.rs
index 739b44f..9aaad87 100644
--- a/crates/edgen_server/src/types.rs
+++ b/crates/edgen_server/src/types.rs
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ pub enum Endpoint {
     AudioTranscriptions,
     /// Embeddings
     Embeddings,
+    /// Image generation
+    ImageGeneration,
 }
 
 impl Display for Endpoint {
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ impl Display for Endpoint {
             Endpoint::ChatCompletions => write!(f, "/chat/completions"),
             Endpoint::AudioTranscriptions => write!(f, "/audio/transcriptions"),
             Endpoint::Embeddings => write!(f, "/embeddings"),
+            Endpoint::ImageGeneration => write!(f, "/images/generations"),
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/docs/src/app/api-reference/image/page.mdx b/docs/src/app/api-reference/image/page.mdx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f25ab00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/src/app/api-reference/image/page.mdx
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+export const metadata = {
+    title: 'Image',
+    description: 'Generate images',
+}
+
+# Chat
+
+Generate images from text. {{ className: 'lead' }}
+
+---
+
+<Row>
+    <Col>
+
+        ## Create image {{tag:'POST', label:'http://localhost:33322/v1/image/generations'}}
+
+        Given a text prompt, generate 1 or more images according to the prompt.
+
+        ### Required attributes
+
+        <Properties>
+            <Property name="prompt" type="string">
+                A description of the images to be generated.
+            </Property>
+        </Properties>
+
+        <Properties>
+            <Property name="model" type="string">
+                The model used for image generations. (WARNING: At the moment only "stable-diffusion-2-1" is allowed)
+                <ul>
+                    <li>
+                        If the model name is "default", the chat model from the configuration is used (see [Documentation &raquo; Configuration](/documentation/configuration) for details).
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        If the model name is a valid model name recognized by Edgen, it is what is used.
+                    </li>
+                </ul>
+
+            </Property>
+        </Properties>
+
+    </Col>
+    <Col sticky>
+
+        <ButtonRow types={["Default"]}>
+
+            <div>
+                <CodeGroup title="Request" tag="POST" label="/v1/chat/completions">
+
+                    ```bash {{ title: 'cURL' }}
+                    curl http://localhost:33322/v1/image/generations \
+                    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+                    -H "Authorization: Bearer no-key-required" \
+                    -d '{
+                    "model": "stable-diffusion-2-1",
+                    "prompt": "A rusty robot"
+                }'
+                    ```
+
+                    ```python
+                    API NOT DONE YET
+                    ```
+
+                    ```ts
+                    API NOT DONE YET
+                    ```
+
+                </CodeGroup>
+
+                ```json {{ title: 'Response' }}
+                {"images": [[123, 234, ..., 231, 213]]}
+                ```
+            </div>
+        </ButtonRow>
+
+    </Col>
+</Row>
diff --git a/edgen/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/edgen/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index d969acf..3aab74c 100644
--- a/edgen/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/edgen/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@ llama_vulkan = ["edgen_server/llama_vulkan"]
 llama_cuda = ["edgen_server/llama_cuda"]
 llama_metal = ["edgen_server/llama_metal"]
 whisper_cuda = ["edgen_server/whisper_cuda"]
+candle_cuda = ["edgen_server/candle_cuda"]