Stability AI released new model SD 3.5 in 2 versions for now Large and Large Turbo, Medium will be released at the end of October.
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large: At 8 billion parameters, with superior quality and prompt adherence, this base model is the most powerful in the Stable Diffusion family. This model is ideal for professional use cases at 1 megapixel resolution.
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo: A distilled version of Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large generates high-quality images with exceptional prompt adherence in just 4 steps, making it considerably faster than Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large.
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium (to be released on October 29th): At 2.5 billion parameters, with improved MMDiT-X architecture and training methods, this model is designed to run “out of the box” on consumer hardware, striking a balance between quality and ease of customization. It is capable of generating images ranging between 0.25 and 2 megapixel resolution.
Models are available on Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3.5-large they have around 15GB in size, also ComfyUI update already works with it. But some topics on Reddit again show some strange generations, bit better than version 3, but still not close to Flux.
EDIT: Draw Things now has checkpoints!