FLUX review — Open weights that actually compete with the closed models

FLUX by Black Forest Labs (Germany, since 2024): A family of image models from the team behind the original Stable Diffusion. The open variants can be run

• FLUX — Open weights that actually compete with the closed models
• AI image generators
• Figma — Collaborative design in the browser — now the default option for any team work.
• Graphic design
• Midjourney — The most opinionated image model, and the most consistent look
• Photopea — A remarkably complete Photoshop replacement that runs in a browser tab.
• Photo editor
• GPT Image — Image generation that understands a conversation
• Google Imagen — Photoreal stills with Google's provenance watermarking
• Adobe Firefly — Trained on licensed material, and indemnified for it