Comment by liuliu
4 days ago
As a startup, they pivoted and focused on image models (they are model providers, and image models often have more use cases than video models, not to mention they continue to have bigger image dataset moat, not video).
4 days ago
As a startup, they pivoted and focused on image models (they are model providers, and image models often have more use cases than video models, not to mention they continue to have bigger image dataset moat, not video).
> bigger image dataset moat
If they have so much data, then why do Flux model outputs look so God-awful bad?
They have plastic skin, weird chins, and have that "AI" aura. Not the good AI aura, mind you. The cheap automated YouTube video kind that you immediately skip.
Flux 2 seems to suffer from the exact same problems.
Midjourney is ancient. Their CEO is off trying to build a 3D volume and dating companion or some nonsense and leaving the product without guidance and much change. It almost feels abandoned. But even so, Midjourney has 10,000x better aesthetics despite having terrible prompt adherence and control. Midjourney images are dripping with magazine spread or Pulitzer aesthetics. It's why Zuckerberg went to them to license their model instead of quasi "open source" BFL.
Even SDXL looks better, and that's a literal dinosaur.
Most of the amazing things you see on social media either come from Midjourney or SDXL. To this day.
>Even SDXL looks better, and that's a literal dinosaur.
I’m not saying you are wrong in effect, but for reference just slightly over 2 years ago was SDZL released, and it took about a year to have great fine tunes.