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It helps most when editing with several reference images, generating many variations from the same references, or building interactive editors; single-image text-to-image gains little.\n\nUse: this repository is the FP8 release. The card points to the reference implementation in BFL's flux2 GitHub repository and to the BFL API; it gives no diffusers or ComfyUI recipe. Hardware: the card says about 29 GB VRAM, accessible on an RTX 5090 and above; that figure is not stated as FP8-specific.\n\nLicence: FLUX Non-Commercial License; the repository is gated and users accept the licence and BFL's Acceptable Use Policy. 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