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		alphabetting on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model OpenAI and FAIR are definitely in the same league as Google but Google has been all-in on AI from the beginning. They've probably spent well over $100B on AI research. I really enjoyed the Genius Makers book which came out last year from an NYT reporter on history of ML race. Deepmind apparently turned down a FB offer of double what Google was offering.

benreesman on May 23, 2022 [–]

Cade Metz is that author and most of it I can only speculate on.

The bits and pieces I saw first hand tie out reasonably well with that account.

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