Black Forest Labs, the studio behind the Fluxfamily of AI image generators, announced last week the release of Flux 1.1 [Pro]. This comes just two months after the release of its original family of models including Flux 1 Pro (a closed source model with industry-leading capabilities), Flux 1 Dev (a noncommercial, open source model) and Flux Schnell (a fully open source model).
The Flux models marked a major leap in generative AI technology with their text generation capabilities, prompt adherence and overall image quality. Even the smaller models, Flux Dev and Flux Schnell, generated results on par with generations from MidJourney, and way better than the outputs provided by SD3, Stability’s much anticipated evolution over SDXL, which turned out to be somewhat underwhelming.
The new model has already made a mark, securing the top Elo score in the Artificial Analysis image arena—a leading benchmarking platform for AI models. It has outperformed every other text-to-image model on the market while being almost as fast as its smallest model.
The graph below shows the Elo score (image quality) on the Y axis and the generation speeds on the X axis. MidJourney enthusiasts may notice that their model is not represented—it’s so slow
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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
