Meta’s New ‘State-Of-The-Art’ AI Image Generator Could Give DALL-E A Run For Its Money – SlashGear

Meta’s image generator is certainly unique, and does things very well, but it is far from the only game in town. Similar tools have been around for a while now, and most major players have one in some form. OpenAI’s DALL-E hit the headlines last year, appears in several forms, and has a strong following. The company’s GPT-4 model is also capable of image generation, though a plugin is needed if you’re using OpenAI’s web tool. Adobe was similarly quick to add AI to its suite of services. “Firefly,” the company’s generative AI model, is available to use for free — though subscribers get access to Adobe’s stock photo library and thus a more effective version of the AI tool that relies on it. Google Bard also uses Firefly for image generation purposes. Then you have powerful tools that require a bit of work to get them going, and decent prompts if you wish to use them effectively. This category includes the likes of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.

As for when you can try Meta’s new tool, we don’t know. The company hasn’t announced when, or if, it will receive a public release. Meta certainly has enough going on already with the launch of a new social media platform, Threads, and the steady collapse of “the Metaverse” to contend with, but we’re hoping this new AI image generator gets a public release in the weeks to come.