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AI and FLUX: The Open Image Model Beating DALL-E
FLUX by Black Forest Labs makes photoreal images and is open-weight.
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- 1The big idea
- 2flux
- 3image generation
- 4black forest labs
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Section 1
The big idea
FLUX (by Black Forest Labs, the team behind Stable Diffusion) is the leading open image model in 2026. FLUX.1 [pro] competes with DALL-E and Midjourney; FLUX.1 [dev] is free for non-commercial use.
Some examples
- Try FLUX on Replicate, fal.ai, or Together AI.
- FLUX nails photorealism and complex scenes better than older models.
- Open weights means you can fine-tune FLUX on your own style.
- Always disclose AI images in school and competition work.
Try it!
Try FLUX on fal.ai. Generate the same prompt on FLUX and DALL-E. Compare the photorealism.
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