PIXART-α is an AI model developed by Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (China and Hong Kong), first published in September 2023. It works in the image generation domain, on tasks such as image generation and text-to-image.
Training it took an estimated 1.5×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware,comparison with other models). The model has 600,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 626B datapoints. Training ran on NVIDIA V100.
Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.