I dont understand how this article is presenting this new model as a competitor of SD. SD already has LCM support, there is StreamDiffusion which you can run on your computer to see near live img2img. There is Control Net, Turbo and lots of other things community has been doing on SD to improve performance.<p>This article is very thin on details of PixArt and it only made me think this is just a fork/variation of SD instead of a new thing like SD.
From the comparisons, this seems quite a bit better than SDXL-LCM. I wonder how long it will take projects like Fooocus to add support for it, I'd be very interested in trying it out.
I was kind of disappointed to dive into comfyui and try to make some game assets with sdxl. ControlNet is a huge leap. But overall outputs aren’t quite there yet.