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MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

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Re: MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

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Makes me wonder that on any given day someone could find way to improve something, and OpenAI value will evaporate quickly. Seems like these startups with high valuations, are more tenuous even than the startups of years past.

There's more to startup value that whether or not they've implemented the latest nifty trick into their models. Their moat is architecture, research, distribution, design, and scale. Have all the local LLM hacks based off Llama 2 and the like done anything to diminish OpenAI's value?

Re: MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

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Makes me wonder that on any given day someone could find way to improve something, and OpenAI value will evaporate quickly. Seems like these startups with high valuations, are more tenuous even than the startups of years past.

Also Meta can spend billions building their own models and release it for free to kill your business.

Re: MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

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>Our method is similar to GANs in that a critic is jointly trained with the generator to minimize a divergence between the real and fake distributions, but differs in that our training does not play an adversarial game that may cause training instability, and our critic can fully leverage the weights of a pretrained diffusion model.

Very glad to see GANs (or GAN-likes) coming back! Also I don't know if the examples were cherrypicked but a lot of the images look more realistic than SD. For example the dog in the snow[0] is severely oversaturated in the SD version giving it that distinct AI look (sometimes referred to as AIslop). Also the landscape scene[1] has a random lens flare in the SD version which makes it look oversaturated as well. The MIT images are much better in this regard.

[0] https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/images/teaser/teaser2_Page_1_... vs https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/images/teaser/teaser2_Page_1_...

[1] https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/images/teaser/teaser2_Page_1_... vs https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/images/teaser/teaser2_Page_1_...

Re: MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

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Makes me wonder that on any given day someone could find way to improve something, and OpenAI value will evaporate quickly. Seems like these startups with high valuations, are more tenuous even than the startups of years past.

There's more to startup value that whether or not they've implemented the latest nifty trick into their models. Their moat is architecture, research, distribution, design, and scale. Have all the local LLM hacks based off Llama 2 and the like done anything to diminish OpenAI's value?

I would say it has. If no one could demonstrate even GPT3.5 capabilities, then OpenAI could be worth a few hundred billion more in private valuations.

But multiple vendors have already demonstrated viable alternatives.

Re: MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

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Makes me wonder that on any given day someone could find way to improve something, and OpenAI value will evaporate quickly. Seems like these startups with high valuations, are more tenuous even than the startups of years past.

OpenAI's value doesn't just come from their tech. Copyright Shield is a deal closer from business types I have spoken to. Telling a company, "if anyone we took data from has a problem they have to deal with our lawyers and not you" is music because what companies want most is stability and reliance. It's the entire reason SLAs are such a big deal in B2B.
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