Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

[Winnow]

AI is progressing at a break neck speed still. There were at least 5 new models that came out ranging from video, image, audio to text models. All nice advancements. Huge progress in AI voice/emotion for local AI.

Just a little while ago I was gushing over OpenAI's image generator that allowed you to edit images using text commands and keep the image mostly the same.

Fast forward to yesterday and Black Forest Labs released FLUX Kontext

Basically it allows you to do all sorts of things with an image, keeping the context of the image. The video above is worth a watch. Right now it's available only in the Pro/Ultimate models but a local FLUX-Kontext DEV model (Like FLUX DEV before it) will be released allowing this to be done locally.

It can modify a scene, extract things from an image, Change text in an image, keeping the same style but with new text, if you check out the video, it can do things like "Take the pattern off the store window and make it a tattoo on a man's back"

It will also allow you to expand and fill (InPainting/OutPainting) an image

According to the charts near the end of the video. Even the Local FLUX Kontext DEV version is better than the commercial competition like ChatGPT, etc. in some areas. It's also fast. Looks like around 10 seconds for image2image using Kontext DEV. version and less than 3 seconds for the pro (vs almost a minute for gpt-image)

The local version won't be the "best" version but what matters is that it can run locally.