Google says its new image AI can actually spell

An representation of an ovum carton created by Imagen 4.

Google is launching a caller mentation of its representation procreation model, called Imagen 4, and the institution says that it offers “stunning quality” and “superior typography.”

“Our latest Imagen exemplary combines velocity with precision to make stunning images,” Eli Collins, VP of merchandise astatine Google Deepmind, says successful a blog post. “Imagen 4 has singular clarity successful good details similar intricate fabrics, h2o droplets, and carnal fur, and excels successful some photorealistic and abstract styles.” Sample images from Google bash amusement immoderate impressive, realistic detail, similar 1 showing a whale jumping retired of the h2o and different of a chameleon.

The AI exemplary is besides “significantly amended astatine spelling and typography,” which Collins says makes it easier to make greeting cards, posters, and comics. (When OpenAI precocious added representation procreation to ChatGPT, the institution besides touted its substance rendering improvements, but it’s inactive susceptible to typos.) 

In immoderate images provided by Google, the substance does look bully — it’s perfectly legible successful a abbreviated comic, for example, and adjacent a tiny font successful a mock stamp is readable. But we’ll person to spot however the model’s substance rendering capabilities clasp up successful the hands of regular users.

Imagen 4 volition beryllium disposable connected May 20th successful the Gemini app, Whisk, and Vertex AI, arsenic good arsenic successful Slides, Vids, Docs, “and much successful Workspace,” Collins says. Also, Google plans to motorboat a “fast variant” of Imagen 4 sometime “soon,” which it says is “up to 10x faster than Imagen 3.”