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The list of generative AI image models just keeps growing.

On Monday, AI company Luma released Photon, its new text-to-image model. Geared towards designers and creatives, the model builds off of Luma’s Dream Machine video generator, which lets users create short video clips from images they upload.

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Like Dream Machine, Photon is designed for everyone and targeted towards those who “build the world around us, from designers, movie makers, visual thinkers to small businesses and educators,” the release explains. This includes use cases for everything from fashion to architecture. 

Featuring multi-image output and sharp text rendering, Photon is built on Luma’s bespoke Universal Transformer architecture, which the company claims makes it “800% faster and cheaper than other comparable models.” Like similar generators, users can tweak their prompts as they go and edit and customize the resulting images. 

Luma also announced a Photon API, that may be …