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Meta announces CM3leon image generator

By Athik Saleh

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Transforming image generation

Meta introduced 'CM3leon,' an AI-powered image generator that can transform text-to-image and image-to-text generation. 

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Not diffusion-based

Meta's CM3leon employs the 'attention' method in transformer models instead of diffusion. This method allows parallel processing and increases processing speed. 

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Image and text

Meta's CM3leon can create sequences of texts and images. The ability to generate images and text improved its performance in various tasks. 

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Parameters

Meta's CM3leon has 7 billion parameters, outdoing OpenAI's DALL-E 2 with 3.5 billion. It was trained on millions of licensed Shutterstock images.

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Captions

Meta's model can perform various text tasks, including generating short or long captions and answering questions about an image.

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