<story><title>Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters</title><url>https://blog.fal.ai/flux-the-largest-open-sourced-text2img-model-now-available-on-fal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hizonner</author><text>You also might want to &amp;quot;clarify&amp;quot; that it is not open source (and neither are any of the other &amp;quot;open source&amp;quot; models). If you want to call it something, try &amp;quot;open weights&amp;quot;, although the usage restrictions make even that a HUGE FUCKING STRETCH.&lt;p&gt;Also, everybody should remember that these models are &lt;i&gt;not copyrightable&lt;/i&gt; and you should never agree to any license for them...</text></item><item><author>burkaygur</author><text>hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blackforestlabs.ai&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blackforestlabs.ai&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team.&lt;p&gt;what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fal.ai&amp;#x2F;models&amp;#x2F;fal-ai&amp;#x2F;flux&amp;#x2F;dev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fal.ai&amp;#x2F;models&amp;#x2F;fal-ai&amp;#x2F;flux&amp;#x2F;dev&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DHolzer</author><text>When I read &amp;quot;open source&amp;quot; i thought they actually are doing open source instead of &amp;quot;open weights&amp;quot; this time. Surely they would expect to be called out on hackernews if they label it incorrectly...&lt;p&gt;Thanks for pointing that out @Hizonener</text></comment>
<story><title>Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters</title><url>https://blog.fal.ai/flux-the-largest-open-sourced-text2img-model-now-available-on-fal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hizonner</author><text>You also might want to &amp;quot;clarify&amp;quot; that it is not open source (and neither are any of the other &amp;quot;open source&amp;quot; models). If you want to call it something, try &amp;quot;open weights&amp;quot;, although the usage restrictions make even that a HUGE FUCKING STRETCH.&lt;p&gt;Also, everybody should remember that these models are &lt;i&gt;not copyrightable&lt;/i&gt; and you should never agree to any license for them...</text></item><item><author>burkaygur</author><text>hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blackforestlabs.ai&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blackforestlabs.ai&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team.&lt;p&gt;what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fal.ai&amp;#x2F;models&amp;#x2F;fal-ai&amp;#x2F;flux&amp;#x2F;dev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fal.ai&amp;#x2F;models&amp;#x2F;fal-ai&amp;#x2F;flux&amp;#x2F;dev&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Morphiak</author><text>A personal bugbear is the AI fascination with calling themselves open source, virtue signalling I guess. Open &lt;i&gt;weights&lt;/i&gt; is exactly right. Source code and arguably more important datasets are both required to replicate the work, which is more in the spirit of open source (and science). I think Meta is especially egregious here, given their history.&lt;p&gt;Never underestimate the value of getting hordes of unpaid workers to refine your product. (See also React, others)</text></comment>