SDXL Turbo Debuts And It’s Crazy Fast! The Latest Real-Time Text to Image Model

After some teasing by Emad, Stability.ai has finally revealed the awaited news — they’ve just unveiled SDXL Turbo! And as you can guess from the name, its main focus is speed. It makes it possible to generate images in real time!

Moreover, Emad, the CEO of Stability.ai, mentioned that for SDXL Turbo and other recent models, a subscription will be required for commercial use. We are slowly shifting from something that started as fully free and open source, but I guess it’s somehow justified, given the resources needed to work on these models.

So, what is it all about? Let’s see the main points taken from the announcement by stability.ai.

Breakthrough Performance with Adversarial Diffusion Distillation

SDXL Turbo seems to be able to offer unparalleled performance thanks to its unique distillation technology, named Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD). This innovative approach enables the model to generate high-quality images in a single step, a significant leap from the previous 50-step processes. The result is an extraordinary capability for real-time image generation, showcasing a level of quality that was once thought to be years away. It also seems to be uncensored like Stable Diffusion…