Has Google/Alphabet publicly released any of their AI models yet? I’ve seen plenty of hype surrounding Imagen [1] and Parti [2], but as far as I know, they’re still vaporware.

Normally I wouldn’t think too hard about this, but two things come to mind here:

Firstly, the speed at which competitors are launching and developing new AI models. Imagen/Parti both seem to rival Stable Diffusion and DALL-E… why can’t we use them yet?

Secondly (and perhaps this is clouding my judgment), the fact a Midjourney founder mentioned during an Office Hours session that [paraphrasing]: “it’s widely known in the industry that 90% of AI research is completely made-up garbage”…

[1] https://imagen.research.google/

[2] https://parti.research.google/

You mean NLP field changing models from Google like BERT [1]? or Transformers paper [2]? or T5 model [3] (used by company doing ChatGPT like search currently on the front page on HN)?

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 code+models: https://github.com/google-research/bert

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04426

3. https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683 code+models: https://github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-tra...