Apple makes major AI advance with image generation technology rivaling DALL-E and Midjourney
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Summary
Apple’s machine learning research team has devised a method for generating high-resolution images using artificial intelligence (AI), which could challenge the dominance of diffusion models.
The technology powers popular image generators such as OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney.
The method, called STARFlow, combines normalising flows with autoregressive transformers to achieve what the Apple team called “competitive performance” with the state-of-the-art diffusion models.
The breakthrough comes at a crucial time for Apple, which has been criticised for its struggles with AI and only unveiled modest updates to its Apple Intelligence platform at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Apple hopes the new technique will produce consumer-facing AI capabilities that can challenge those of its rivals.