SDXL Turbo
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SDXL-Turbo is a fast generative text-to-image model that can synthesize photorealistic images from a text prompt in a single network evaluation. A real-time demo is available here: http://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion-turbo

Key Takeaways:

  • SDXL Turbo achieves state-of-the-art performance with a new distillation technology, enabling single-step image generation with unprecedented quality, reducing the required step count from 50 to just one.

  • See our research paper for specific technical details regarding the model’s new distillation technique that leverages a combination of adversarial training and score distillation.

  • Download the model weights and code on Hugging Face, currently being released under a non-commercial research license that permits personal, non-commercial use.

  • Test SDXL Turbo on Stability AI’s image editing platform Clipdrop, with a beta demonstration of the real-time text-to-image generation capabilities

Model weights and code: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-turbo

Demo: https://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion-turbo

Paper: https://stability.ai/research/stability-ai-adversarial-diffusion-distillation

Blogpost: https://stability.ai/news/stability-ai-sdxl-turbo

  • keepthepaceEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Understandable but sad. They are now at the bleeding edge and not playing catchup anymore. They can cash out hard. That means that for now, this advanced model is a dead end for open source as we wont be able to improve it as we were in the last iterations.

    “non-commercial license” is not open source but I would not mind if this became the standard for the cutting edge in the industry as we try to figure out a business model to make true open source work.