Stable Diffusion XL 0.9 IS HERE! Better than Midjourney, Leonardo Ai and Other Ai Art Generators?
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Big news in the AI world.
SToday, Stability AI announces SDXL 0.9, the most advanced development in the Stable Diffusion text-to-image suite of models. Following the successful release of Stable Diffusion XL beta in April, SDXL 0.9 produces massively improved image and composition detail over its predecessor.
The model can be accessed via ClipDrop today with API coming shortly. Research weights are now available with an open release coming in mid-July as we move to 1.0.
Despite its ability to be run on a modern consumer GPU, SDXL 0.9 presents a leap in creative use cases for generative AI imagery. The ability to generate hyper-realistic creations for films, television, music, and instructional videos, as well as offering advancements for design and industrial use, places SDXL at the forefront of real world applications for AI imagery.
The SDXL series also offers a range of functionalities that extend beyond basic text prompting. These include image-to-image prompting (inputting one image to get variations of that image), inpainting (reconstructing missing parts of an image), and outpainting (constructing a seamless extension of an existing image).
SDXL 0.9 has one of the largest parameter counts of any open source image model, boasting a 3.5B parameter base model and a 6.6B parameter model ensemble pipeline (the final output is created by running on two models and aggregating the results). The second stage model of the pipeline is used to add finer details to the generated output of the first stage.
To compare, the beta version runs on 3.1B parameters and uses just a single model.
SDXL 0.9 is run on two CLIP models, including one of the largest OpenCLIP models trained to date (OpenCLIP ViT-G/14), which beefs up 0.9’s processing power and ability to create realistic imagery with greater depth and a higher resolution of 1024x1024.
Availability
SDXL 0.9 is now available on the Clipdrop by Stability AI platform. Stability AI API and DreamStudio customers will be able to access the model this Monday, 26th June as well as other leading image generating tools like NightCafe.
SDXL 0.9 will be provided for research purposes only during a limited period to collect feedback and fully refine the model before its general open release. The code to run it will be publicly available on Github.
If researchers would like to access these models, please apply using the following link: SDXL-0.9-Base model, and SDXL-0.9-Refiner. Please log in to your HuggingFace Account with your academic email to request access. Kindly remember that currently, SDXL 0.9 is exclusively intended for research purposes.
SOURCE :- https://stability.ai/blog/sdxl-09-stable-diffusion
