Freepik has launched F Lite, a new “open” AI image generator created in partnership with the AI firm Fal.ai. This exciting new tool promises to expand the horizons of image generation, and it’s publicly available on GitHub right now for everyone to use. Among them, F Lite is notable with about 10 billion parameters and comes in two variations—standard and texture.
At Freepik, the creation of F Lite was a very tight secret project. It took months of delicate organizing and intensive work to bring this can’t miss innovative project to fruition. The company says it trained this model with only about 80 million commercially licensed images, from an apparently much larger proprietary dataset. This intentional curation ensures that all presentations remain “safe-for-work.” We performed model training on 64 Nvidia H100 GPUs. This intensive, hands-on process lasted for two months, making clear the prodigious resources required and committed to this effort.
F Lite’s standard version emphasizes predictability and adherence to user prompts, making it suitable for applications where consistency is key. While the texture version lacks the precise stamp quality, it adds an element of madness and mischief, and it’s fantastic at complex textures. This duality adds flexibility to the tool and gives users the power to select the output that’s right for their creative vision.
Freepik would like to stress that F Lite is a huge breakthrough in image generation. It still does not claim that F Lite produces better quality than other leading generators such as Midjourney’s V7 or Black Forest Labs’ Flux family. The company’s is lying that their knowledge of the competitive landscape. Adobe, Bria, Getty Images, Moonvalley, and Shutterstock are all part of the Creative Commons Media-Generation Consortium, creating copyright-cleared, media-generating models with licensed data.
Freepik’s Javi Lopez expressed,
“We’ve been secretly working on this for months! It feels good to finally share it!”
Read the full README.md for F Lite on GitHub. It provides key insights for users willing to jump in and get exploring its vast potential. To help developers, creators and everyone in between access these easily, Freepik has added handy direct links to both the standard and texture versions.