For example, as an AI researcher, I can't consider Imagen/Parti to be the state of the art if all we have are cherry-picked examples and we can't verify anything. For all practical intents and purposes, they are just vaporware, and the state of the art are models like Stable Diffusion or DALL-E.
Of course they are free to keep them that way, but they risk losing their reputation as AI/ML/NLP leaders.
Google publishes plenty of other ml based papers.
Assuming in any way that Google might loose it's reputation because of imagine is very very far fetched.
When they released BERT there was no doubt that they were the leaders. Even laymen heard about it.
What AI advances do laymen most talk about now? DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT. AlphaCode and LaMDA gave some headlines but not even close. Everyone is too busy trying ChatGPT to pay attention to those.
> Firstly, the speed at which competitors are launching and developing new AI models. Imagen/Parti both seem to rival Stable Diffusion and DALL-E… why can’t we use them yet?
Because Google doesn't want you to have access to them? Why do you feel like you're entitled to their internal research?
Google releases papers on robots[0] as well. Do you expect them to ship you a free robotic arm? Or give you the ML model for it?
0: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/talking-to-robots-in-real-...