Google quietly opens Imagen 3 access to all U.S. users

VentureBeat: “Google has quietly made its latest text-to-image AI model, Imagen 3, available to all U.S. users through its ImageFX platform and published a research paper detailing the technology. This dual release marks a significant expansion of access to the AI tool, which was initially announced in May at Google I/O and limited to select Vertex AI users in June. The company’s research team stated in their paper, published on arxiv.org, “We introduce Imagen 3, a latent diffusion model that generates high-quality images from text prompts. Imagen 3 is preferred over other state-of-the-art models at the time of evaluation.” This development comes in the same week as xAI’s launch of Grok-2, a rival AI system with notably fewer restrictions on image generation, highlighting the divergent approaches to AI ethics and content moderation within the tech industry.”