Open-weight promise seems nice, but 1) I've seen people commenting that these hopes amounted to nothing for some previous releases (no idea which promises were made though); and 2) if the backbone is released as Dev, what will be missing? I can't easily tell from the post.
It would be interesting to see some time-series sentiment analysis of HN. Subjectively it feels like there's much negativity on HN these days, I hope I'm wrong.
> It jointly learns from images, videos, and audio within a unified architecture, because what it needs to learn is not any one of these elements in isolation.
I'm confused, videos contain images and audio ...?
That's most likely a disagreement on terms. In the media world, video is only the moving images, not audio. This is separate from images, that are meant to be still images.
It's more a comment about the feature detection I think; all image, video and audio input contribute to the same weights/activations that can produce image, video and audio output.
imagine spending nine figures training a model to learn that the sound has to match the impact. my 8-month-old figured that out by dropping a spoon on the floor twice.
Well, unified multimodal intelligence is the only way we will get to The Terminator, which seems to be the goal now of Silicon Valley and every Nation State with a military budget, so have at.
The fact that people keep developing this technology shows that the true problem is not that machines are likely to become intelligent, but that people have already become machines - unthinking and without any care to the future whatsoever.
Sorry because pointing this is a bit tired by now, but reading already the first two paragraph thete is this unmistakable stench of LLM slop writing. Immediately disengaged.
Open-weight plans are near the bottom (Launch section):
- Video and audio generation and editing through APIs and private weight access. (“FLUX 3 Video”)
- Action prediction through selected research and commercial partners, beginning with mimic robotics (“FLUX-mimic and FLUX 3 Action”)
- Image synthesis and editing through APIs and private weight access. (“FLUX 3 Image”)
- Open-weight access to a multimodal backbone, for content creation (video, audio and image) and action prediction. (“FLUX 3 Dev”)
> Over the next few weeks and months, we will make the following capabilities available
> Open-weight access to a multimodal backbone, for content creation (video, audio and image) and action prediction. (“FLUX 3 Dev”)
> We will also release more technical details on the underlying approach.
- Frivolous use of the term World Model.
- Claims 20 seconds of video, shows only jumpcuts.
Coming soon!
But then again I heard the downers have always been the first to leave their dung comments here so let's see...
I see nothing here but them TELLING us how great it is. Not showing us.
Have you watched the 46s video full screen on a monitor and not marvelled at the incredible 4K detail of the FPV motorcycle racing clip?
I'm confused, videos contain images and audio ...?
> our mission to develop real-world visual intelligence
Visual is mono-modal, isn't it?