Some big news in AI image generation today.

Most of the members of the image and video team from Stability AI launched a new company called Black Forest and a new model called Flux. Early results look very good. Currently requires 24 GB VRAM, but should be optimized by the community soon. ComfyUI has support already. Their site has a teaser of the upcoming text-to-video model, but it's currently being hugged to death.

https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux

https://blackforestlabs.ai/up-next/

JoyCaption is a free, open and uncensored VLM built from the ground up. Existing tools are expensive or don't perform well for some domains. Great results for a pre-Alpha. This tool will be extermely useful to enable more community fine-tuning and training because producing captions for datasets is very time-consuming.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1egwgfk/joycaption_free_open_uncensored_vlm_early/

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