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/ images or videos to sentences... reduced parameters from 2.56B of public SW model to 700M using knowledge distillation... 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"

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