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Apple makes major AI advance with image generation technology rivaling DALL-E and Midjourney
Apple researchers develop STARFlow, a breakthrough AI image generation system that challenges diffusion models used by DALL-E and Midjourney with competitive performance.
Unlike diffusion models, which rely on iterative denoising processes, STARFlow maintains the mathematical properties of normalizing flows, enabling “exact maximum likelihood training in continuous spaces without discretization.” The collaboration also includes Ruixiang Zhang from UC Berkeley’s mathematics department and Laurent Dinh, a machine learning researcher known for pioneering work on flow-based models during his time at Google Brain and DeepMind. While STARFlow represents a significant technical achievement, the real test will be whether Apple can translate such research breakthroughs into the kind of consumer-facing AI features that have made competitors like ChatGPT household names.
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