Emu2
AI
multimodal model
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
5 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Performance: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Open-sourcing a capable multimodal model is welcome
From 2 comments
I’m always in favor of more open-source models, and especially multimodal ones. I feel that the end goal for these models will be multimodal so it’s important that open-source…
opdahl on HNWow! It is really amazing that such a capable large-scale multimodal model is open-sourced. Thank you for sharing this.
hao_wen on HN
Performs well in tests
From 1 comment
This is really cool, thanks for sharing this! I tried a few tests and it did pretty well. But it translated 热闹 as "hot and noisy" with this prompt: Give some example sentences…
Vt71fcAqt7 on HN
Objections
Primarily trained on English, weak on other languages
From 2 comments
Emu2 is primarily trained on the English corpus. Hence, it may not perform well as expected when dealing with tasks like translation.
F_AnZzz on HNEmu2 is primarily trained on the English corpus, which may result in suboptimal performance when dealing with inputs in other languages.
F_AnZzz on HN
Licensing was unclear and model weights under GPLv3 at first
From 3 comments
Thank you for posting this announce! I tried to find under which license this work is available, but it does not appear to be stated anywhere. Without the license being clear,…
krasin on HNThe current model weights are distributed under the GPLv3 license. The authors are in the process of releasing a new series of Emu2 models that will be accompanied by a more…
BAAIBeijing on HNApplying GPL to model weights is very odd indeed.
zarzavat on HN
Hugging Face demo has long queue times
From 1 comment
The examples look very promising but the queue time of the huggingface demo is a bit long I actually got a timeout error :(
isaacfung on HN
Requests
Clarify the license
From 2 comments
Thank you for posting this announce! I tried to find under which license this work is available, but it does not appear to be stated anywhere. Without the license being clear,…
krasin on HNThe first question I ask myself when I see any new model: What's the license? Edit: Also couldn't find a license.
Zuiii on HN
Release the chat template
From 1 comment
What is the chat template? I can't find it in the model card or model details.
xena on HN
Questions
How does it compare to ChatGPT or LLaMA on Chinese translation?
From 1 comment
Does Emu2 have better Chinese content and translation than say ChatGPT or LLAMA?
getwiththeprog on HN
Is it similar to GPT-4-Vision?
From 1 comment
Is it similar to OpenAI GPT-4-Vision model?
moochee on HN
Alternatives named
Flamingo-80B
From 1 comment
LLaVA
From 1 comment
Wow, the other link is so much faster. Almost the same speed as the much weaker llava demo on huggingface.
isaacfung on HN
ChatGPT
From 1 comment
Does Emu2 have better Chinese content and translation than say ChatGPT or LLAMA?
getwiththeprog on HN