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Run Stable Diffusion 3 on your Apple Silicon Mac

Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) is the newest version of the open-source AI model that turns text into images. You can run it locally on your Apple Silicon Mac and start making stunning pictures in minutes. Watch this video to see it in action Prerequisites A Mac with an M-series Apple Silicon chip Git Clone the repository and set up the environment Run this to clone the SD3 code repository: Copy git clone https://github.com/zsxkib/sd3-on-apple-silicon.git cd sd3-on-apple-silicon Then, create a new virtual environment with the packages SD3 needs: Copy python3 -m venv sd3-env source sd3-env/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt Run it! Now, you can generate your first SD3 image: Copy python sd3-on-mps.py The first run will download the SD3 model and weights, which are around 15.54 GB. Subsequent runs will use the downloaded files. In under a minute, you’ll have a new image called sd3-output-mps.png in your directory. It’ll look something like this: A cat holding a sign that says hello world That’s it! Customize your images You can tweak various settings in …

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