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Black Forest Labs—the team that helped develop the original Stable Diffusion—has launched Flux, the largest open-source text-to-image model to date. With a staggering 12 billion parameters, Flux can delivery visuals that rival those of Midjourney, and possibly beat any other model currently available—be it open or closed source. Flux comes in three variations: Flux Dev, which is open source with a non-commercial license for community development; Flux Schnell, which is a faster, distilled version operating up to ten times quicker, available under an Apache 2 license and the top-of-the-line model; and Flux Pro. which is a closed-source version available via an API. Flux Dev and Flux Schnell are available for download on Hugging Face. ComfyUI has also been updated to support the new models in local workflows. Black Forest Labs made the announcement Thursday, emphasizing the team’s proven track record of advancing generative AI for media. “Our innovations include creating VQGAN and Latent Diffusion, Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion models for image and video generation (Stable Diffusion XL, Stable Video Diffusion, Rectified Flow Transformers), and Adversarial Diffusion Distillation for ultra-fast, real-time image synthesis,” the team said. The launch follows a successful seed funding round of $31 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz and supported by notable investors including Brendan Iribe, Michael Ovitz, and Garry Tan. In benchmarking tests, Flux says its models have set new standards in image synthesis, surpassing models like Midjourney v6.0, Dall-E 3 (HD), and SD3 Ultra in visual quality, prompt following, size/aspect variability, typography, and output diversity. Black Forest’s charts claim that its Pro and Dev models are the best image generators to date, and its less powerful Schnell ranks between Midjourney v5 and Ideogram. Flux score vs other AI image generators. Image: Black Forest Labs Users with smaller GPUs may be out of luck, however. The open-source…

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