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Halcyon

A family of multimodal autoregressive text-to-image models trained entirely from scratch without language pretraining.

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New modelsImage Models Trained Without Language Pretraining Matched Rivals in a Controlled TestHerald of AI

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Image Models Trained Without Language Pretraining Matched Rivals in a Controlled Test

Researchers trained a text-to-image system from scratch on image-text pairs, beating larger models while using far less computing power.

Oct 20, 2026