{"id":11893,"date":"2024-08-31T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T21:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11893"},"modified":"2024-08-30T18:44:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T01:44:25","slug":"installing-black-forest-flux-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11893","title":{"rendered":"Installing Black Forest Flux.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stable Diffusion really opened the world to what is possible with generative AI. Stable Diffusion 2 and 3 …well…did not go so well<\/a>. For a while now, Stable Diffusion 1.5 was your best bet on locally generated AI art but it is really showing it’s age.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now there is a new player in open source generative AI you can run locally. The developers from Stability.ai have founded Black Forest Labs<\/a> and released their open source tool: Flux.1<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there are plenty of online generative AI’s like Midjourney, Adobe Firefly and others, they usually require paid or only give limited usage. What’s great about Flux.1 is that is allows completely local installation and usage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many open source packages, there are free and paid versions. Their paid Pro version gives the most impressive results via their api (no purely local generation), a local dev version that can be used by developers but not for commercial use, and a free schnell version for personal use. Both the dev and shnell versions are available for local install and use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, lets get started with the shnell version – but the instructions are the same for dev except using 2 different model\/weight files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instructions for installing Flux.1 on nVidia based Windows 10\/11 system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Prerequisites:\n