New AI image generator runs using 10 times fewer steps than today's best models
- Mar 20
- 1 min read
LIVE SCIENCE — Artificial intelligence (AI) image generators are becoming more powerful, and they usually rely on heavyweight large language models (LLMs) running in the cloud. But researchers say they've built a new system that can generate high-quality images using roughly 10 times fewer processing steps.
The result is AI that's fast and efficient enough to run locally on phones and laptops, while being more secure and environmentally friendly than AI that runs on power-hungry data centers.
The technology, called Stable Diffusion 3.5 Flash (SD3.5-Flash), was developed through a collaboration between researchers at the University of Surrey's Institute for People-Centred AI and the company Stability AI.
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