Shanghai JUMPSTAR Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced a major upgrade to its Step-1X series of image generation models with the launch of the improved Step-1X-Medium version. This upgraded version has achieved significant enhancements in several areas: based on the MMDit architecture, the generation speed has increased by over 30%; through targeted training, the new version exhibits stronger understanding capability and text-image consistency, resulting in more natural details in the generated images.

Stability AI has once again broken through technical barriers by launching the new Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium model. This AI art tool aimed at the general public is not only completely free for commercial use but also achieves a perfect balance between high performance and accessibility. With its multimodal diffusion transformer (MMDiT-X) architecture and a streamlined design of 2.5 billion parameters, this model cleverly addresses the hardware threshold for ordinary users, requiring only 9.9GB of VRAM to run smoothly on most consumer-grade graphics cards.

The technical report on Stable Diffusion 3 reveals that SD3 adopts the Multimodal Diffusion Transformer architecture MMDiT. SD3 introduces reweighted flow technology to enhance performance. The report discusses the scaling research of SD3 and anticipates future performance improvements along with issues and suggestions regarding the text encoder.

Stable Diffusion 3 is the most powerful text-to-image model. It adopts the MMDiT architecture, demonstrating performance that surpasses existing text-to-image generation systems. Stable Diffusion 3 excels in visual aesthetics, text adherence, and layout compared to other advanced models. The MMDiT architecture combines DiT and rectangular flow forms, processing image and language representations through independent weight sets. Stable Diffusion 3 offers flexibility.