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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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metadat wrote: post #107
burkaygur wrote: post #32

hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs ( https://blackforestlabs.ai/ ) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team. what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. https://fal.ai/models…

The playground is a drag. After accepting being forced to sign up, attach my GitHub, and hand over my email address, I entered the desired prompt and waited with anticipation.. Only to see a black screen and how much it's going to cost per megapixel. Bummer. After seeing what was generated in the blog post I was excited to try it! Now feeling disappointed. I was hoping it'd be more like https://play.go.dev . Good luc…

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Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Post by csomar »

seveibar wrote: post #57

whenever I see a new model I always see if it can do engineering diagrams (e.g. "two square boxes at a distance of 3.5mm"), still no dice on this one. https://x.com/seveibar/status/1819081632575611279 Would love to see an AI company attack engineering diagrams head on, my current hunch is that they just aren't in the training dataset (I'm very tempted to make a synthetic dataset/benchmark)

> https://fal.media/files/kangaroo/FwO3j7xFIgpIXepqKDj6h.png

Prompt: two square boxes at a distance of 3.5mm. Both boxes have the same size, 10cm.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Post by Thorrez »

djbusby wrote: post #130
refulgentis wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a looong distracting thread a month ago about something similar, niche language, might have been Julia, had a package with the same name as $NEW_THING. I hope this one doesn't stir as much discussion. It has 4000 stars, there isnt a large mass of people who view the world through the lens of "Flux is ML library". No one will end up in a "who is on first?" discussion because of it. If this line of argument i…

Like the Go language that existed before Google Go.

It's named "Go!".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

Disclosure: I work at Google but not on the Go team.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Post by andymcsherry »

Hizonner wrote: post #104
burkaygur wrote: post #32

hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs ( https://blackforestlabs.ai/ ) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team. what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. https://fal.ai/models…

You also might want to "clarify" that it is not open source (and neither are any of the other "open source" models). If you want to call it something, try "open weights", although the usage restrictions make even that a HUGE FUCKING STRETCH. Also, everybody should remember that these models are not copyrightable and you should never agree to any license for them...

I get the sentiment, but one of their models, albeit the worst one, is licensed under Apache without usage restrictions. The source to run the models is also open source.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Post by astrange »

Hizonner wrote: post #104
burkaygur wrote: post #32

hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs ( https://blackforestlabs.ai/ ) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team. what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. https://fal.ai/models…

You also might want to "clarify" that it is not open source (and neither are any of the other "open source" models). If you want to call it something, try "open weights", although the usage restrictions make even that a HUGE FUCKING STRETCH. Also, everybody should remember that these models are not copyrightable and you should never agree to any license for them...

It's certainly not true that models are not copyrightable; databases have copyright protection if creativity was involved in creating them.

That said, I don't think outputs of the model are derivative works of it, any more than the model is a derivative of its training data, so it's not clear to me they can actually enforce what you do with them.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Post by astrange »

vessenes wrote: post #77
burkaygur wrote: post #32

hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs ( https://blackforestlabs.ai/ ) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team. what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. https://fal.ai/models…

Congrats Burkay - the model is very impressive. One area I’d like to see improved in a flux v2 is knowledge of artist styles. Flux cannot respond to requests asking for paintings in the style of David Hockney, Norman Rockwell, Edgar Degas, — it seems to have no fine art training at all. I’d bet that fine art training would further improve the compositional skills of the model, plus it would open up a range of uses th…

It's "just" another diffusion model, although a very good one. Those people are probably in there even if its text encoder doesn't know about them. So you can find them with textual inversion.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Post by astrange »

swatcoder wrote: post #21
PoignardAzur wrote: post #14

Am I missing something? The beach image they give still fails to follow the prompt in major ways.

You're not. I'm surprised at their selections because neither the cooking one nor the beach one adhere to the prompt in very well, and that first one only does because it prompt largely avoids much detail altogether. Overall, the announcement gives the sense that it can make pretty pictures but not very precise ones.

Well, that's nothing new, but it doesn't matter to dedicated users because they don't control it just by typing in text prompts. They use ComfyUI, which is a node editor.
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