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I tested the future of AI image generation. It’s astoundingly fast.

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MIT and Tsinghua University have created a hybrid AI image generation tool called HART .

HART combines an autoregressive model with a 700 million parameter range and a small diffusion model that can handle 37 million parameters.

The tool was able to create images that match quality of state-of-the-art diffusion models, but do so about nine times faster.

It can run locally on phones and laptops, which is a huge win for the team.

HART struggles with digits, basic depictions like eating food items, character consistency, and failing at perspective capture.

Overall, I am particularly excited by the immense potential of HART .

It would be interesting to see whether MIT and Nvidia create a product out of it, or simply adopt the hybrid AI approach in an existing product.