Stable Diffusion 1.0 XL Released

calendar Jul 26, 2023 · 3 min read  ·
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Stability AI released Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 for download.

UPDATE: Stability AI posted an SD XL 1.0 announcement on their blog

This was their announcement on Discord:

SDXL 1.0 Release & Super Stage

Stability is proud to announce the release of SDXL 1.0; the highly-anticipated model in its image-generation series! After you all have been tinkering away with randomized sets of models on our Discord bot, since early May, we’ve finally reached our winning crowned-candidate together for the release of SDXL 1.0, will now be available via Github, DreamStudio, API, Clipdrop, and AmazonSagemaker!

Your help, votes, and feedback along the way has been instrumental in spinning this into something truly amazing– It has been a testament to how truly wonderful and helpful this community is! For that, we thank you!

SDXL has been tested and benchmarked by Stability against a variety of image generation models that are proprietary or are variants of the previous generation of Stable Diffusion. Across various categories and challenges, SDXL comes out on top as the best image generation model to date.

Some of the most exciting features of SDXL include:

🌠 The highest quality text to image model: SDXL generates images considered to be best in overall quality and aesthetics across a variety of styles, concepts, and categories by blind testers. Compared to other leading models, SDXL shows a notable bump up in quality overall.

💕 Freedom of expression: Best-in-class photorealism, as well as an ability to generate high quality art in virtually any art style. Distinct images are made without having any particular ‘feel’ that is imparted by the model, ensuring absolute freedom of style.

💡 Enhanced intelligence: Best-in-class ability to generate concepts that are notoriously difficult for image models to render, such as hands and text, or spatially arranged objects and persons (e.g., a red box on top of a blue box) Simpler prompting: Unlike other generative image models, SDXL requires only a few words to create complex, detailed, and aesthetically pleasing images. No more need for paragraphs of qualifiers.

✔️ More accurate: Prompting in SDXL is not only simple, but more true to the intention of prompts. SDXL’s improved CLIP model understands text so effectively that concepts like “The Red Square” are understood to be different from ‘a red square’. This accuracy allows much more to be done to get the perfect image directly from text, even before using the more advanced features or fine-tuning that Stable Diffusion is famous for.

📍 All of the flexibility of Stable Diffusion: SDXL is primed for complex image design workflows that include generation for text or base image, inpainting (with masks), outpainting, and more. SDXL can also be fine-tuned for concepts and used with controlnets. Some of these features will be forthcoming releases from Stability.

Come join us on stage with Emad and Applied-Team 10 hours ago for all your burning questions! Get all the details LIVE!

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