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A new text-to-image model soars to the top of the charts

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“A new text-to-image model soars to the top of the charts
Source: Black Forest Labs
An AI startup called Black Forest Labs just emerged from stealth — and immediately leapfrogged over the competition. Its suite of text-to-image models, known as FLUX 1, already outperforms rivals like Midjourney 6.0, DALL-E 3 HD, and Stable Diffusion 3-Ultra.
It leads across multiple factors, like image detail, scene complexity, and prompt adherence, according to the Elo rating system. And Black Forest says it has all of the aspect ratio and style options you’ve come to expect from today’s image generators, too.
Who’s behind it? Several of the startup’s engineers come from Stability AI, the developer behind the influential image generator Stable Diffusion. That company ran into trouble earlier this year when its CEO, Emad Mostaque, was accused of mismanagement and eventually stepped down.
Black Forest is also backed by a who’s-who of AI industry insiders, like Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan and Timo Aila, a senior researcher at Nvidia — not to mention Andreessen Horowitz, which led the startup’s $31 million seed funding round.
How it’s different: Black Forest says it combined several experimental training techniques to make FLUX 1 both faster and more accurate.
  • For one, it uses rotary positional embeddings — an approach that helps the model keep track of large sequences; each piece of data is assigned its own unique characteristics, which makes it easier for the LLM to tell them apart
  • It also uses a parallel diffusion transformer, which lets the model analyze multiple parts of a sequence simultaneously — speeding up the time it takes to transform visual noise into a cohesive image
What next? Black Forest says it’s planning to drop a state-of-the-art text-to-video model soon. If it’s anything like FLUX 1, other video-focused AI companies (including OpenAI, HeyGen, and Runway) might have their work cut out for them. In the meantime, you can try out FLUX 1 on cloud platforms like Fal and Replicate.”
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Posted on: August 3, 2024, 6:36 am Category: Uncategorized

By: Stephen Abram

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