ByteDance open-sourced BAGEL, a 7B multimodal model for image gen, editing, style transfer, and understanding under Apache 2.0.

ByteDance open-sourced BAGEL, a 7B parameter multimodal model under Apache 2.0. The model handles image generation, editing, style transfer, and visual understanding in a single architecture.

Key facts

7B parameter model, Apache 2.0 licensed.

Handles generation, editing, style transfer, understanding.

No benchmark scores or training data disclosed by ByteDance.

Smaller than PaLI-X (55B) or GPT-4V, targeting on-device deployment.

ByteDance has released BAGEL, a 7B parameter multimodal model that unifies four image-centric tasks—generation, editing, style transfer, and visual understanding—under a single Apache 2.0 license [According to @kimmonismus].…