South Korean tech giant Kakao wants a piece of the action in the generative AI race, and today it made a bid for it, with big updates to its AI image generator Karlo and its KoGPT large language model and a new fund to back AI image generating startups.
Kakao’s AI division Kakao Brain‘s launch of Karlo 2.0 — an AI-powered tool that can produce images from text prompts — enables users to generate an image in just a matter of seconds by inputting prompts in English or Korean.
KoGPT 2.0, meanwhile, isn’t due to be released until Q3 2023 but it will be based on GPT-3.5 and be trained on 30 billion different parameters.
