Sber’s free generative model, Kandinsky 2.1, has become one of the fastest growing artificial intelligence (AI) services in the world, Sber’s press service reported.
According to the developers, it took only four days for the Russian neural network to reach 1 million unique users. This is faster than OpenAI’s ChatGPT service, which takes five days to complete.
Since the release of Kandinsky 2.1, more than 10 million images have been created and the number of unique users has reached 2 million.
Kandinsky 2.1 can generate images from textual descriptions in natural language in a matter of seconds. The model speaks 101 languages and opens up new possibilities for creativity: it can mix several drawings, complete the image, create a painting in endless canvas mode (interior painting / exterior painting). The neural network was developed and trained by Sber AI researchers with the joint support of scientists from AIRI Artificial Intelligence Institute on the combined dataset of Sber AI and SberDevices.
The neural network took over the weights of the previous version, trained on one billion text-image pairs and also trained on 170 million high-resolution text-image pairs. It then trained on a separately aggregated dataset of two million pairs of high-quality images.