ETRI's ultra-fast generative visual AI creates images in just 2 seconds

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-ultra-fast-generative-visual-intelligence.html

"sentences to images (5X faster) or videos, and images or videos to sentences... reduced parameters from 2.56B of public SW model to 700M using knowledge distillation technique... image generation 2X faster, 5X better esolution... reduced size by 1/3 to 1B (base), fast speed around 2 s, enabling operation on low-cost GPUs with only 8GB memory... shift from text-centric generative models to multimodal... small models to perform role of large, accumulating knowledge using AI... open-source, competing against GPT-4"