AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step

In our current age of artificial intelligence, computers can generate their own “art” by way of diffusion models, iteratively adding structure to a noisy initial state until a clear image or video emerges. Diffusion models have suddenly grabbed a seat at everyone’s table: Enter a few words and experience instantaneous, dopamine-spiking dreamscapes at the intersection of reality and fantasy. Behind the scenes, it involves a complex, time-intensive process requiring numerous iterations for the algorithm to perfect the image.

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With their DMD method, MIT researchers created a one-step AI image generator that achieves image quality comparable to StableDiffusion v1.5 while being 30 times faster (Credits: Illustration by Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL using six AI-generated images developed by researchers).
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