Meta's AI image generator says language may be all you need

Using a fraction of the GPU compute, Meta's CM3Leon achieves images with complex combinations of objects, and hard-to-render things like hands and text, and at a level that achieves a new state of the art on the benchmark FID score. 

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For the past several years, the world has been wowed by artificial intelligence programs that generate images when you type a phrase, programs such as Stable Diffusion and DALL*E that will output images in any style you want and that can be subtly varied by using different prompted phrases.

Typically, those programs have relied on manipulating example images by performing a process of compression on the example images, and then de-compressing them to recover the original, whereby they learn the rules of image creation, a process referred to as diffusion. 

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