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Sakana AI drops image models to generate Japan’s traditional ukiyo-e artwork
The artwork flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and Sakana hopes to bring it back using the power of AI.
Almost a year ago, the Tokyo-based startup made a striking appearance on the AI scene with its high-profile founders from Google and a novel automated merging-based approach to developing high-performing models. The move comes as the latest localization effort in the AI space — something that has grown over the past year, with companies in countries like South Korea, India and China building models tailored to their respective cultures and dialects. The company said it used LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) to fine-tune Evo-SDXL-JP on a dataset of over 24,000 carefully-captioned ukiyo-e artworks acquired through a partnership with the Art Research Center (ARC) of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.
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