Over the past two years, AI-powered image generators have become commodified, more or less, thanks to the widespread availability of — and decreasing technical barriers around — the tech. They’ve been deployed by practically every major tech player, including Google and Microsoft, as well as countless startups angling to nab a slice of the increasingly lucrative generative AI pie.
That isn’t to suggest they’re consistent yet, performance-wise — far from it. While the quality of image generators has improved, it’s been incremental, sometimes agonizing progress.
But Meta claims to have had a breakthrough.
Today, Meta announced CM3leon (“chameleon” in clumsy leetspeak), an AI model that the company claims achieves state-of-the-art performance for text-to-image generation. CM3leon is also distinguished by being one of the first image generators capable of generating captions for images, laying the groundwork for mo...
