🔋 FLUX.1 - the coolest AI model

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Tim Moylan
05 Aug • Reading Time: 7 minutes

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The AI releases continued to roll in over the weekend, with new launches from Gemini 1.5 Pro which is a chart topper, and the coolest name for an AI Image Generator, FLUX.1, so let’s dive in..

🐝 Buzz News

Google’s new Gemini 1.5 Pro AI model dominates benchmarks, beats GPT-4o and Claude-3

Google launched an experimental version of its Gemini 1.5 Pro AI model that's demonstrated higher performance on benchmarks than ChatGPT and Claude, putting them at #1 on the Lmsys leaderboard.

GitHub Models is for the new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub

Github is enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models which comes with open models like Llama and Mistral and closed ones like GPT-4o and 4o mini from OpenAI.

Argentina plans to predict future crimes with AI, ‘Minority report’ style

The government of Argentina last week announced the creation of an AI group in the Cybercrime Directorate that will use statistical software to predict crime.

3x new Chrome AI features for better browsing

Google is launching in Chrome an improved Google Lens for image search, Tab Compare for reviewing products on multiple tabs, and conversational search for your history. 

Reddit Acquires Ad-Optimisation company Memorable AI

Reddit announced the acquisition of Memorable AI for $40M, which uses artificial intelligence to optimise advertising. The move helps Reddit bolster it's AI presence.

Stability AI releases super-fast model for 3D asset image generation.

Stability AI has released a new model called Stable Fast 3D, which creates 3D models from a single 2D image in about half a second.

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AI Image Generator
🔋 FLUX.1 emerges from stealth mode

AI startup Black Forest Labs has emerged from stealth mode, and its text-to-image model FLUX.1 is already outperforming rivals like Midjourney 6.0 and DALL-E 3 HD. FLUX 1 is impressively skilled at creating realistic human hands. Its capabilities have left many in the AI community astonished.

🔑 Key Points:

  • Leads in image detail, scene complexity, and prompt adherence

  • Offers aspect ratio and style options

  • Combines experimental training techniques for faster and more accurate results

  • Uses rotary positional embeddings and parallel diffusion transformer

  • Backed by Y-Combinator CEO Garry Tan

Takeaways:

FLUX.1 is planning to release a state of the art text-to-video model that will be available on cloud platforms like Fal and Replicate.

Source: ArsTechnia

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Source: MidJourney

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