As a product for professional designers, the system has to offer a high degree of control.

With the new foundation model, Recraft promises another level of creativity.

The London-based startup is pitching the incoming system as an alternative toopen sourceAI platforms such as Stable Diffusion.

AI design startup shuns Stable Diffusion for in-house foundation model

These tools are accessible popular and accessible art generators.

Users can fine-tune them to customise the models for specific tasks, but they will face significant constraints.

According to Recraft, the process severely limitsthe quality of images.

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Foundation models, however, dont come cheap.

With the fresh cash infusion, Recraft is confident that the vision will become a reality.

TheSeries A round was led Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman, the former CEO of GitHub.

Work is already underway on the foundation model, which will use apre-trained, deep-learningalgorithm.

Story byThomas Macaulay

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