Google Imagen 2
cloud.google.com
Google Imagen 2
1–10 of 194 posts
Re: Google Imagen 2
#2This post has more information: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/i...
I can't figure out how to try this thing. The closest I got was this sentence:
"To get started with Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, find our documentation or reach out to your Google Cloud account representative to join the Trusted Tester Program."
Re: Google Imagen 2
#3This would have been an epic release two years ago, but there are now many well-established models in this area (DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion). It would be great to see some comparisons or benchmarks to show Imagen 2 is a better alternative. As it stands, it's hard for me to tell if this is worth switching to.
Re: Google Imagen 2
#4[deleted]
Re: Google Imagen 2
#5But how do we use it?
Yet another documentation release by googling, promising impressive things that we cannot actually use, while the competition is readily available.
Re: Google Imagen 2
#6This would have been an epic release two years ago, but there are now many well-established models in this area (DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion). It would be great to see some comparisons or benchmarks to show Imagen 2 is a better alternative. As it stands, it's hard for me to tell if this is worth switching to.
Right? This page looks like basically every other generative image AI announcement page as well as basically every model page. They show a bunch of their cherry-picked examples that are still only like "pretty good" (relative to the rest of the industry, it's incredible tech compared to something like deepdream) and give you nothing to really differentiate it.
Re: Google Imagen 2
#7This post has more information: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/i... I can't figure out how to try this thing. The closest I got was this sentence: "To get started with Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, find our documentation or reach out to your Google Cloud account representative to join the Trusted Tester Program."
This page might be somewhat helpful: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/image/...
It also includes a link to the TTP form, although the form itself seems to make no reference to Imagen being part of the program anymore, confusingly. (Instead indicating that Imagen is GA.)
Re: Google Imagen 2
#8Google desperately needs to get their platform/docs in order. It is incredibly difficult to use any of their new AI stuff. I have access to Imagen (which was a rodeo to get on its own), but do not know if it v1 or v2 for example.
Re: Google Imagen 2
#9This would have been an epic release two years ago, but there are now many well-established models in this area (DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion). It would be great to see some comparisons or benchmarks to show Imagen 2 is a better alternative. As it stands, it's hard for me to tell if this is worth switching to.
> it's hard for me to tell
I can only compare it to Stable Diffusion. But Imagen2 seems significant more advanced.
Try to do anything with text and SDxl. It's not easy and often messes up. I don't think you can get a clean logo with multiple text areas on sdxl.
Look at the prompt and image of the robin. That is mighty impressive.
Re: Google Imagen 2
#10To all the people saying “this sucks because we can’t use it” — there’s no real value in Google releasing this vs just making the announcement. This space is a race to the bottom, and there’s no significant profit being created in image gen right now (even if the service generates cashflow, the training and inference cost is insane). For the sake of team morale and legal risk, this announcement is totally enough, better to keep training models and focus on the next announcement…