Diffusers welcomes Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3 Medium)

AI Impact Summary

Diffusers has integrated Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3), a new model from Stability AI, offering improved image generation capabilities. This release includes the SD3 Medium model (2B parameters) and provides integration with the Diffusers pipeline, along with training scripts and documentation. The integration leverages optimizations like model offloading and quantization of the T5-XXL text encoder to enable SD3’s use on a wider range of hardware, particularly GPUs with limited VRAM.