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Behind Black Forest Labs is a team familiar to people who follow the development of AI generation: Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann and Dominik Lorenz are key figures who recently left Stability AI. They are also joined by Patrick Esser, one of the creators of the original Stable Diffusion.
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The first tests show that FLUX.1 can seriously compete with the existing market leaders. According to some parameters, the new algorithm is not inferior to DALL-E 3 in query accuracy and approaches Midjourney 6 in photorealism. In addition, FLUX.1 demonstrates a marked superiority over Stable Diffusion XL, the team’s last major project before leaving Stability AI.
