Microsoft Research Unveils Lens: Efficient Image Generator Using 800M Detailed Captions
Microsoft Research presents Lens, a text-to-image model with just 3.8 billion parameters that matches much larger rivals on benchmarks, at a fraction of the training cost. The secret sauce: 800 million detailed image captions generated by GPT-4.1 instead of vague web alt-text.
Code and weights are openly available under an open-source license.
