새해의 AI 놀라움: Fal, 10배 저렴하고 6배 더 효율적인 Flux 2 이미지 생성기 자체 버전 출시

Hot on the heels of its new $140 million Series D fundraising round, the multi-modal enterprise AI media creation platform fal.ai, known simply as "fal" or "Fal" is back with a year-end surprise: a faster, more efficient, and cheaper version of the Flux.2 [dev] open source image model from Black Forest Labs.Fal's new model FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo is a distilled, ultra-fast image generation model that’s already outperforming many of its larger rivals on public benchmarks, and is available now on Hugging Face, though very importantly: under a custom Black Forest non-commercial license. It’s not a full-stack image model in the traditional sense, but rather a LoRA adapter—a lightweight performance enhancer that attaches to the original FLUX.2 base model and unlocks high-quality images in a fraction of the time.It’s also open-weight. And for technical teams evaluating cost, speed, and deployment control in an increasingly API-gated ecosystem, it's a compelling examp