Wuerstchen is an AI model developed by Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, University of Montreal / Université de Montréal, Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms), Polytechnique Montreal and Wand Technologies (Germany, Canada and United States), first published in September 2023. It works in the image generation domain, on tasks such as text-to-image and image generation.
Training it took an estimated 8.3×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). The model has 1,000,000,000 parameters.
Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.