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Stable Diffusion & Text-to-Image

The open-source text-to-image model that democratized AI art. Works in a compressed latent space (not pixel space) for efficiency. SDXL and SD 3.5 produce photorealistic images from text prompts, and open-weight successors such as FLUX build on the same latent-diffusion recipe.

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Latent diffusionCLIP text encoderU-NetControlNetLoRA

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AI art, product mockups, game asset generation, marketing visuals

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