This New AI Image Generator Is Giving Tough Fight To Midjourney, DALL-E 3!


Radhika Kajarekar

Radhika Kajarekar

Aug 17, 2024


The newest AI-generated images show close-ups of people speaking into microphones, possibly at a gathering or conference.

This New AI Image Generator Is Giving Tough Fight To Midjourney, DALL-E 3!

The pictures originally appeared in an AI-generated content Reddit thread.

These images’ accurate portrayal of skin, hair, and wrinkles has created a lot of discussion on the internet.

Latest AI Image Generator, FLUX.1: How Does It Work?

FLUX.1, a recently released text-to-image AI model, was used to create the images. FLUX.1 was created by the German company Black Forest Labs.

The photos demonstrate how AI models can now produce realistically rendered synthetic individuals with very few defects—the only exception being skewed lettering on badges.

Given that FLUX.1 is open-source, this technology is both sophisticated and accessible.

Using a Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) approach, the viral AI-generated photographs were refined and improved.

FLUX.1 comes in three versions: Pro, Dev, and Schnell, and was formally released on August 1.

The Dev version is intended for non-commercial usage and has open weights, whereas the Pro version is intended for commercial use. With open weights and a quicker design, the Schnell version is meant to be speedy. 

12 Billion Parameters in FLUX.1’s Architecture

The architecture of FLUX.1 combines diffusion and transformer approaches, with a total of 12 billion parameters.

In contrast, the parameter sizes of the Stability Diffusion 3 models range from 800 million to 8 billion.

Through the use of training techniques like flow matching, the AI model was optimized.

The source of the data utilized to train FLUX has not been made public by the company.1. AI researchers and engineers, some of whom had previously worked at Stability AI, created Black Forest Labs.

Before joining Black Forest Labs, influential individuals including Dominik Lorenz, Andreas Blattmann, and Robin Rombach contributed to the creation of Stability Diffusion 3.

In a recent round of seed funding, the firm secured approximately $31 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and MätchVC.

On board as advisors are former Disney executive Michael Ovitz and AI researcher Matthias Bethge.

More precisely, FLUX.1 can produce human hands and legs, resolving earlier problems with AI-generated pictures.

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