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Imagen 2 in Bard, ImageFX and Search

Google · 1 February 2024

Imagen 2 reaches consumers through image generation in Bard, the new ImageFX tool and Search, plus Vertex AI for enterprises, all with SynthID watermarks.

Diffusion model with better hands and faces, fewer artifacts and tighter prompt alignment. Every output carries an invisible SynthID watermark, and generation of named individuals is blocked. Canva and Snap were named Vertex AI customers.

Date
Thursday, 1 February 2024
Lab
Google
Kind
product
Access
closed API

Date is Google's consumer-rollout post; earlier developer previews of Imagen 2 exist but were not verified here.

Sources

  1. blog.google/technology/ai/google-imagen-2/

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