What Is Flux AI and How to Use It — Tutorial 255

On Thursday, the Germany-headquartered company's artificial intelligence startup Black Forest Labs announced the release of its first set of text-to-image AI models, called FLUX.1. The company, founded by researchers who developed the technology behind Stable Diffusion and invented latent diffusion technology, creates advanced generative AI for images and videos.

FLUX AI official website:https://blackforestlabs.ai

What is FLUX AI?

FLUX AI is an advanced generative AI technology model that converts text prompts into images. In terms of generation quality, it is on par with Midjourney and DALL-E 3. Relatively speaking, FLUX AI takes a leading position in several aspects, particularly in image detail and scene complexity.

Black Forest Labs has launched three FLUX.1 text-to-image models: a high-end commercial "pro" version, a mid-tier "dev" version with open weights for non-commercial use, and a faster open-weight "schnell" version ("schnell" means fast or quickly in German).

• FLUX.1 pro: The highest-quality model, offering state-of-the-art performance, with top-tier prompt following, visual quality, image detail, and output diversity.

• FLUX.1 dev: Aimed at non-commercial applications, distilled from FLUX.1 [pro], it offers similar quality and capabilities to FLUX.1 [pro], while being more efficient than standard models of the same size.

• FLUX.1 schnell: The fastest of the three models, tailored for local development and personal use, and publicly available under the Apache 2.0 license.

How to use FLUX AI

To use FLUX AI, you can access it on platforms such as Replicate and Huggingface. The usage links for the three versions are as follows:

FLUX.1 [pro] : Replicate/flux-pro

FLUX.1 [dev] : Huggingface.co/FLUX.1-dev

FLUX.1 [schnell]: Huggingface.co/FLUX.1-schnell