See Imagen for example - https://imagen.research.google/
If Google is to be believed, this outperforms Dall-E - and I’ve heard from people that use it that in general, it does perform better than Dall-E.
I don't get Google's brand or leadership anymore. They're staring disruption to their core revenue stream in the face and acting like the "everything is fine" dog.
Meanwhile Microsoft is playing dimensional chess across multiple industries and key developing areas of research.
Are you saying they should have more bombast in their product announcements?
However although the models of today are interesting, they’re not consistent enough for many business applications. It’s not good enough to generate realistic cartoon characters most of the time but sometimes they randomly have 4 arms. Or you have a language model that can say interesting things but can’t be relied upon for basic facts. Maybe some day we will be there but not today.
Google actually surpassed its own model[0], first with Parti[1], which unlike DALL-E could even correctly insert text in the image, then with Imagen Video[2], which does as the name implies.
[0]: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/text-to-image-generation-on-...