Kakao Brain Releases ‘Kalo’ Web Services on the basis of Kalo 2.0
Kakao Brain has released ‘Kalo’, an image creation web service that perfectly realizes images from your imagination.
The ‘Kalo’ web service is a redesigned AI image creation service based on user feedback on ‘Non-Edit’, which Kakao Brain released in open beta in March.
Kakao Brain has applied the “Kalo 2.0″ model, a super-sized AI artist trained on approximately 300 million text-image datasets, to this web service. Kalo 2.0” has the advantage of drawing high-quality, near-realistic images by adding spatiality, dimensionality, and detail to images. In particular, it can generate high-quality drawings based on the highest quality level of the underlying language.
In order to improve user convenience, Kakao Brain has focused on improving the “text-to-image” function that is the basis of the image creation tool, and added an automatic prompt (command) translation function to the “Kalo” web service to enable image creation in Korean. We realized that users often refer to other users’ images or prompts when creating images, so we added an “Explore” function that allows users to check them out.
In addition, the user experience (UX) design has been revised to be more intuitive, the speed of image creation has been improved, and the Kalo 2.0 model can be used as a base model to create images in a variety of styles, including realistic, semi-realistic, and animated. Users of the Kalo web service can turn any image into a finished work of art in as little as three seconds, with up to eight images per prompt. The generated images can be downloaded in PNG format.
Using the Kalo Web Service is very easy. All you need to do is enter the prompt for the image in the form of a keyword, such as “Queen of the forest”. If you want to exclude something from the image generation, you can enter the keyword in the ‘Negative Prompt’ field. If you want the prompt to reflect a particular art style, you can add a style name to the prompt, such as “animation,” or you can select the appropriate style from the Style menu in the AI canvas and type in the prompt.
Users can also customize and enhance the generated image with ‘Outpainting’, a natural extension of the AI-generated image, and ‘Inpainting’, which replaces a specific area within the image with a new image. Outpainting, in particular, has the ability to expand the image size indefinitely.
Meanwhile, the ‘Kalo’ web service is simple and easy to use, allowing anyone to create images like a design professional. Last month, Kakao Makers sold T-shirts and mobile phone cases with images reinterpreted from existing masterpieces through the ‘Kalo’ web service. In addition, anyone who needs high-quality images, such as students and employees who need images for presentations, writers who need images for their manuscripts, and users who want unique and different SNS profile images, can create images through the ‘Kalo’ web service.
“We plan to gradually add useful features to make it easier for users to create high-quality images of their choice, while increasing user convenience through multi-language support.” “We will expand the scope of AI by providing an environment where users can freely use the ‘Kalo’ web service, which is an advanced image creation tool,” said Kakao Brain.