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Artificial intelligence (AI) image generation technology is accelerating rapidly—in more ways than one. Recent advancements have catapulted the industry from steady progress to relentless breakthroughs, now promising the advent of real-time, high-fidelity image creation. It’s not that these tools were slow—one minute is not too long to wait to “make it more.” But users still demand more: more realism, more versatility, more variety, and more speed. And on that latter point, researchers are gladly delivering. SDXL hits the gas pedal Stability AI has unveiled SDXL Turbo, which may represent a monumental leap in AI image generation. We don’t say that lightly: the recently announced model can generate images in one second instead of the 30 to over 60 seconds that usual generators take. It is almost, if not effectively, real-time AI image generation. SDXL Turbo is different from all the previous Stable Diffusion models. The Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD) technology is what makes it possible to significantly reduce the number of steps required to generate high-quality images—as few as even one step when normal images might take somewhere from 30 all the way to 100 steps. “ADD is the first method to unlock single-step, real-time image synthesis with foundation models,” Stability AI claims in a research paper. Introducing SDXL Turbo: A real-time text-to-image generation model. SDXL Turbo achieves state-of-the-art performance with a new distillation technology, enabling single-step image generation with unprecedented quality, reducing the required step count from 50 to just one. The… pic.twitter.com/0NA4aUqKkD — Stability AI (@StabilityAI) November 28, 2023 SDXL Turbo employs a hybrid of adversarial training and score distillation, optimizing the generative process and ensuring that images are produced rapidly while maintaining high fidelity. As a result, the introduction of SDXL Turbo enables the production of complex, high-resolution images almost instantly. This new approach also brings attention…

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