Meta unveils CM3leon, a transformer model for image generation requiring 5x less compute and a smaller training data set than past transformer-based models (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta unveils CM3leon, a transformer model for image generation requiring 5x less compute and a smaller training data set than past transformer-based models  —  Over the past two years, AI-powered image generators have become commodified, more or less, thanks to the widespread availability of …