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2-Billion-parameter text-to-image model released for $21K

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What is A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)?

Linum’s new P-JiT model can generate images from text prompts despite having only 2 billion parameters, and the whole training run cost about $21 k. The weights are released under Apache 2.0, so anyone can download and run it locally.

Who it is for

Developers and artists who need a free, modest-size diffusion alternative can experiment with it right away.

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