FLUX 3 Image

(bfl.ai)

132 points | by minimaxir 22 hours ago

11 comments

  • armcat 3 minutes ago
    Does anyone know if it can be used to generate accurate frame-by-frame sprite sequences? I found that no image model can do this well (with sufficient fidelity) - neither with one shot (full spritesheet), nor single frame conditioning. It would be great if an imagegen model could do this. What I do now (I use my own tool https://github.com/acatovic/ai-game-studio) is basically generate a reference image, then condition on that image to generate a very short video, then extract and prune frames. Then I get indie-level sprite fidelity about 90% of the time.
  • vunderba 45 minutes ago
    One of the things they seem to be emphasizing here is the UX around being able to place specific elements where you want them in an image. If the positions of the components in the overall composition are very important, this seems to make that a lot easier and kind of reminds me of InvokeAI.

    Ideogram V4, an open-weight model released back in June can also do this [1], but you have to use a relatively cumbersome JSON structure to describe all the different bounding boxes. So it’s definitely a bit of a hassle.

    I'll probably be waiting until it goes open-weight (hopefully soon) like they did with Flux.2 / Klein.

    [1] - https://docs.ideogram.ai/using-ideogram/getting-started/prom...

    • kranke155 18 minutes ago
      You just get an LLM to do the bounding box stuff or use the ComfyUI node that provides a GUI for bounding box generation
      • CuriouslyC 1 minute ago
        I always hated Comfy's node based UI, but agents make it tolerable. Now I just have them set up a workflow and I go in and tweak it manually if the results aren't where I want them. I even have agents cherry doing multiple runs and cherry picking the best outputs, models have gotten good enough that it's a real time saver, assuming you have references they can and a rubric to check against.
  • assimpleaspossi 6 minutes ago
    I shouldn't have to scroll all the way down, click to use the thing, then fumble around to figure out what this does. It should be clear at the top of the first page (so I know right away that I don't need this).
    • richardfulop 0 minutes ago
      It is a version 3 of a product.If you actually used or needed these, you would have known right away what this is and how it works.
  • arnaudsm 1 hour ago
    The UX looks amazing and very steerable, congrats to the team for focusing on the interface.

    Chats can be awful user interfaces.

  • KazaNLP 31 minutes ago
    Agreed with other comments about the UX. I'm more interested in that than the model itself. Would like to start seeing UI like this where you get to choose the model and compare different models. Can't jump all over the internet to each model developers sandbox just to test their models. Doing it from one place would be nice.
  • neals 1 hour ago
    It's this a new model or a new ui?
  • vergessenmir 44 minutes ago
    I think we are all waiting for the open weights or local model releases.
    • pixelesque 29 minutes ago
      Has that been announced?

      The website mentions:

      > FLUX 3 Image is available under a commercial weights license for companies running image generation at scale. Fine-tune and deploy it on your own infrastructure. Reach out to us to learn more.

      I guess the open ones would be non-commercial?

  • htrp 55 minutes ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031796

    What's new from the last post? GA?

    • zamadatix 46 minutes ago
      The original article mentions:

      > We will open up an early access phase for FLUX 3 Image in the following weeks.

      Not sure if there was a separate post for early access or if they just skipped to this.

  • reilly3000 17 hours ago
    That sort of steering ability that has been possible with the latest Gemini releases has been nice to work with over previous generations. It’s great to see this improve on the platform with declarative controls built into the API and coming soon as an open model.
  • myself248 53 minutes ago
    Unrelated to the flux images used for floppy disk archiving? Sigh.
    • pizzafeelsright 7 minutes ago
      Every new piece of software needs a name.

      Flux is in the top 9000 of the most common words.

  • Grimblewald 18 hours ago
    looks cool, eternally greatful these models are marked for open weight releases. Pretty excited