Stable Diffusion 3 Medium released with ability to run on consumer laptops

Stability AI on Wednesday released a smaller version of its Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) artificial intelligence (AI) model. Called Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, the company introduced the smaller text-to-image model as its most advanced image generation model. While retaining all the functionality of the larger generative AI model, the latest tool has lower GPU requirements and consumes less power than previous models. The open-sourced weights have also been made available on Hugging Face, and the company says this AI model can run efficiently on consumer PCs and laptops.

Stability AI introduces stable diffusion 3 Medium

While the Stable Diffusion 3 model (now called Stable Diffusion 3 Large) was publicly available in April, its high GPU and compute requirements made it difficult for most people with consumer PCs and laptops to work efficiently. The company has addressed this problem by offering Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, which can run on most laptops and PCs.

According to a report According to VentureBeat, the minimum requirement for the AI ​​model is 5GB of GPU VRAM and the recommended requirement is 16GB of GPU VRAM. Notably, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 has 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM.

Despite its smaller size of two billion parameters (as opposed to SD3 Large’s eight billion parameters), Stability AI said in a news editorial after that the Stable Diffusion 3 Medium can show a similar level of efficiency as its larger counterpart. The latest model for image generation delivers detailed photorealistic outputs and high-quality outputs in flexible styles. To enhance the realism in hands and faces, the AI ​​company uses a 16-channel VAE (Variational Autoencoder).

Prompt adherence will also be on par with the larger model. SD3 Medium can understand complex prompts that involve spatial reasoning, compositional elements, actions, and styles. Furthermore, typography, which has been a common pitfall of image generation models, has also been improved in the latest AI model, the company added.

Stable Diffusion 3 Medium has been made generally available via the company’s Fireworks AI-powered App Programming Interface (API). The text-to-image AI model is also accessible via the Stable Assistant platform or the Stable Artisan Discord server. Further open weights have also been created available with a non-commercial license on Hugging Face. To use it for commercial purposes, users must obtain a creator license from the company.