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A recent report from AINews ( highlights that Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 model has surpassed multiple competitors...

A recent report from AINews ( highlights that Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 model has surpassed multiple competitors including Grok Imagine, indicating a competitive loss for XAI in multimodal AI. The article states that FLUX 3 beats Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni, and Grok Imagine, and also mentions a video-action robotics model. Meanwhile, the Grok AI app ranks #45 on the Apple App Store ( suggesting moderate consumer adoption but does not offset the competitive setback. What the sources said: - AINews: "Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine." - App Store: "Rank 45 on Top Free."

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A recent report from AINews (https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-black-forest-labs-flux-3-multimodal) highlights that Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 model has surpassed multiple competitors including Grok Imagine, indicating a competitive loss for XAI in multimodal AI. The article states that FLUX 3 beats Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni, and Grok Imagine, and also mentions a video-action robotics model. Meanwhile, the Grok AI app ranks #45 on the Apple App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grok-ai/id6670324846), suggesting moderate consumer adoption but does not offset the competitive setback.

What the sources said:

  • AINews: "Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine."
  • App Store: "Rank 45 on Top Free."

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