> (available without sign-in) FLUX.1 [schnell] (Apache 2.0, open weights, step distilled): https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux/schnell

Well, I was wondering about bias in the model, so I entered "a president" as the prompt. Looks like it has a bias alright, but it's even more specific than I expected...

You weren’t kidding. Tried three times and all three were variations of the same[0].

[0] https://fal.media/files/elephant/gu3ZQ46_53BUV6lptexEh.png

The interesting part is that it does a good Joe Biden, but Trump always looks weird and alien.

https://imgur.com/a/fgf6Jt3

What is the difference between schnell and dev? Just the kind of distillation?

>FLUX.1 [dev]: The base model

>FLUX.1 [schnell]: A distilled version of the base model that operates up to 10 times faster

It should also be noted that "schnell" is the German word for "fast".

Not quite right, per their github repo:

> Models

> We are offering three models:

> FLUX.1 [pro] the base model, available via API

> FLUX.1 [dev] guidance-distilled variant

> FLUX.1 [schnell] guidance and step-distilled variant

Schnell is definitely worse in quality, although still impressive (it gets text right). Dev is the really good one that arguably outperforms the new Midjourney 6.1

Also worth mentioning schnell is a 4-step model, so comparable to SD lightning in that regard

What's the difference between pro and dev? Is the pro one also 12B parameters? Are the example images on the site (the patagonia guy, lego and the beach potato) generated with dev or pro?

I think they are mainly -dev and -schnell. Both models are 12B. -pro is the most powerful and raw, -dev is guidance distilled version of it and -schnell is step distilled version (where you can get pretty good results with 2-8 steps).

what does guidance distilled mean?

something about pro must be better than dev or it wouldn't be made API-only, but what exactly, how does guidance distilling affect pro it and what quality remains in dev?

Requires sign-in with a GitHub account, unfortunately.

I think they may have turned on the gating some time after this was submitted to HackerNews. Earlier this morning I definitely ran the model several times without signing in at all (not via GitHub, not via anything). But now it says "Sign in to run".

i just updated the links to clarify which models require sign-in and which doesn't!