Black Forest Labs, the IA startup whose models have once fed the Grok cat images generation featuresThursday published a new suite of models generating image – some of which can both create And Change photos.
The most capable of the models of the new family, called flux.1 KonText, can be invited with text and, possibly, a reference image to create new images, writes black forest laboratories in a blog.
“The flow models.1 Kontext provide generation of cutting -edge images with a strong prompt, a photorealistic rendering and a competitive typography – all at an inference speeds up to 8 times faster than current leading models,” writes the company in its article.
Flux.1 Kontext comes while the race to build generators of competitive images heats up. Google made its debut on its latest model of image generation, Imagen 4Earlier this month at the Conference of E / O developers of the company. Earlier this year, Openai brought a considerably improved Chatgpt image generating model – A model that has quickly become viral for its ability to create art in the style of Ghibli studio movies.
There are two models in the Flux.1 KonText family: flow. 1 KONTEX (PRO) and FLUX.1 KONTEX (MAX). The first allows users to generate an image and refine them through several “turns”, while preserving characters and styles in images. Flow. 1 KONTEX (max) focuses on speed, consistency and support for prompts.
Unlike some of the previous models of Black Forest Labs, Flux.1 Kontex (Pro) and Flux.1 Kontex (MAX) cannot be downloaded for offline use. However, Black Forest Labs manufactures a “open” KonText model, Flux.1 KonText (DEV), available in private beta for research and safety tests.
Black Forest Labs also launches a model game model that allows users to try their models without having to register for a third -party service. New users obtain 200 credits, enough to generate around 12 images with flow. 1 KONTEX (PRO).
Black Forest Labs, based in Germany, was said to be in talks To raise $ 100 million to an evaluation of $ 1 billion towards the end of last year. Many founders come from AI stability, the creator of the notorious stable dissemination generation model. Donors include Andreessen Horowitz, the co-founder of Oculus Brendan Iribe and Garry Tan from Y Combinator.
During the months which followed their emergence of Stealth, Black Forest Labs published a certain number of new models generating images and services focused on the company, including a API.
