Google Opens Access to Imagen 3 AI Image Generator Across the US

Now, Google’s Imagen 3 AI image generator is available to all users within the United States. The release for this advanced text-to-image creator was made at the 2024 I/O event; now, silent access expansion has been introduced after launching Pixel 9.

Earlier, Imagen 3 was only available through the Vertex AI development platform and a private preview; now, following the upgrade, US users will get a chance to play around with the next-generation image generator on Google’s AI Test Kitchen.

In a paper posted on arxiv.org, a Google research team wrote, “We introduce Imagen 3, a latent diffusion model that generates high-quality images from text prompts. Imagen 3 is preferred over other state-of-the-art models at the time of evaluation.”

The Pixel Studio app by Pixel 9 is powered by Imagen 3 AI platform. The application allows users to create images using only text. It offers on-device AI picture editing, thus making it easier and much faster for users to enhance photos.

While the Pixel 9 ships out of the box with Imagen 3, that doesn’t mean people have to buy that device to get it. According to the company, the solution is supposed to reach more users over time. It is also foreseen that this result of Imagen 3 will be integrated into Samsung’s future Android 15-based One UI 7 update.

The company claimed it “significantly improved” the tool’s understanding of prompts. Then, it will be offered in a dedicated form to return better and more relevant results in tasks targeting quick sketches and high-resolution pictures.