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Imagen 3

Our highest quality text-to-image model

Imagen 3 is our highest quality text-to-image model, capable of generating images with even better detail, richer lighting and fewer distracting artifacts than our previous models.

We’ve significantly improved Imagen 3’s ability to understand prompts, which helps the models generate a wide range of visual styles and capture small details from longer prompts.

To be even more useful, Imagen 3 will be available in multiple versions, each optimized for different types of tasks, from generating quick sketches to high-resolution images.

Starting today, Imagen 3 is available for select creators as a private preview inside ImageFX, and you can sign up to join the waitlist. Imagen 3 is also coming soon to Vertex AI.

Three hot air balloons float in the sky above a rugged landscape of rock formations. The balloons are colorful and have a basket hanging below them. The sun is shining and the sky is blue. — Prompt: Shot in the style of DSLR camera with the polarizing filter. A photo of two hot air balloons floating over the unique rock formations in Cappadocia, Turkey. The colors and patterns on these balloons contrast beautifully against the earthy tones of the landscape below. This shot captures the sense of adventure that comes with enjoying such an experience.

Numerous origami paper cranes, in various colors and patterns, float over a blurred cityscape with rooftops bathed in warm sunlight. — Prompt: A close-up photo of an origami bird soaring through a cityscape, in a flock with others of different colors and patterns, casting intricate shadows on the buildings below.

Three young women are standing in a circle and happily laughing. Behind them, the sun is setting creating a lens flare and imbuing the image with a warm glow. — Prompt: Three women stand together laughing, with one woman slightly out of focus in the foreground. The sun is setting behind the women, creating a lens flare and a warm glow that highlights their hair and creates a bokeh effect in the background. The photography style is candid and captures a genuine moment of connection and happiness between friends. The warm light of golden hour lends a nostalgic and intimate feel to the image.

A moss-covered wooden robot stands in a field of wildflowers, holding out its hand to a small bluebird perched on it. A waterfall flows down a cliff in the background. — Prompt: A weathered, wooden mech robot covered in flowering vines stands peacefully in a field of tall wildflowers, with a small bluebird resting on its outstretched hand. Digital cartoon, with warm colors and soft lines. A large cliff with a waterfall looms behind.

A large, scaly dragon with horns and glowing eyes lies on the ground next to a small, white lamb. The dragon has a gentle expression on its face as it looks at the lamb. — Prompt: Photographic portrait of a real life dragon resting peacefully in a zoo, curled up next to its pet sheep. Cinematic movie still, high quality DSLR photo.

A hand gently holds a sprig of eucalyptus with round, silvery-green leaves. The background is a blur of similar leaves. — Prompt: A view of a person’s hand holding a eucalyptus sprig - a macro DSLR image highlighting the balance of human and nature.

Greater versatility and prompt understanding

We’ve designed Imagen 3 to generate high-quality images in a wide range of formats and styles, from photorealistic landscapes to richly textured oil paintings or whimsical claymation scenes.

Imagen 3 also understands prompts written in natural, everyday language, making it easier to get the output you want without complex prompt engineering.

To help Imagen 3 capture nuances like specific camera angles or compositions in long, complex prompts, we added richer detail to the caption of each image in its training data. Given better information to learn from, Imagen 3 more accurately generates a wide range of subjects and styles.

A detailed still life oil painting of a large, overflowing bouquet of flowers in a glass vase. The bouquet is made up of various colorful flowers, including roses, lilies, peonies, and wildflowers. It sits on a dark wooden table, with several fruits scattered around it, including pears, apples, and berries. The background is a dark, muted tone, highlighting the vibrant colors of the flowers and fruits. — Prompt: A large, colorful bouquet of flowers in an old blue glass vase on the table. In front is one beautiful peony flower surrounded by various other blossoms like roses, lilies, daisies, orchids, fruits, berries, green leaves. The background is dark gray. Oil painting in the style of the Dutch Golden Age.

A purple-hued illustration of a lion roaring fiercely, its mouth open wide, against a backdrop of a full moon and jungle foliage. — Prompt: Detailed illustration of majestic lion roaring proudly in a dream-like jungle, purple white line art background, clipart on light violet paper texture

a scene made entirely of clay depicting an elderly woman wearing a flowing red top and taupe skirt. She is walking on a straight path in a garden, with lush plants growing on either side of the path. She is holding a large orange watering can in her right hand and is using it to water the plants. — Prompt: Claymation scene. A medium wide shot of an elderly woman. She is wearing flowing clothing. She is standing in a lush garden watering the plants with an orange watering can

Higher quality images

Imagen 3 generates visually rich, high-quality images, with good lighting and composition. It can accurately render small details like the fine wrinkles on a person’s hand, and complex textures like a knitted stuffed toy elephant.

A small, gray crocheted elephant toy stands on a dirt path in a grassy field. The elephant has white tusks and toenails and black eyes. The background is a blur of green and brown foliage, with the sun setting in the distance. — Prompt: Elephant amigurumi walking in savanna, a professional photograph, blurry background

A person’s hand as they hold a small clay figurine of a bird in one hand and sculpt it with a modeling tool in the other. Their hands are covered in clay dust. The sculptor is wearing a gray fleece jacket and a brown and burgundy scarf. — Prompt: A view of a person's hand as they hold a little clay figurine of a bird in their hand and sculpt it with a modeling tool in their other hand. You can see the sculptor's scarf. Their hands are covered in clay dust. a macro DSLR image highlighting the texture and craftsmanship.

A white fluffy teddy bear lies sleeping on a gray rug in a child's bedroom. Other toys are visible in the background, including colorful blocks and a toy car. — Prompt: White fluffy bear toy is sleeping in a children's room, on the floor of a baby bedroom with toy boxes and toys around, in the style of photorealistic 3D rendering.

Better text rendering

We’ve also significantly improved its text rendering capabilities, opening up new possibilities for use cases like stylized birthday cards, presentations and more.

The word "light" formed from colorful feathers arranged on a black background. — Prompt: Word “light” made from various colorful feathers, black background

a comic book panel of a young boy and his father on a grassy field, staring at the setting sun over a body of water. The boy says “The sun will rise again” in a speech bubble. — Prompt: A single comic book panel of a boy and his father on a grassy hill, staring at the sunset. A speech bubble points from the boy's mouth and says: The sun will rise again. Muted, late 1990s coloring style

The entrance to a grand, stone building with the words "Central Library" engraved above the doorway. The doorway is framed by two columns and features a set of large wooden doors with glass panes. — Prompt: A photograph of a stately library entrance with the words "Central Library" carved into the stone

Built and deployed with our latest safety and responsibility innovations

Imagen 3 was built with our latest safety and responsibility innovations, from data and model development to production.

We used extensive filtering and data labeling to minimize harmful content in datasets and reduced the likelihood of harmful outputs. We also conducted red teaming and evaluations on topics including fairness, bias and content safety.

We’re deploying Imagen 3 with our latest privacy, safety and security technologies, including our innovative watermarking tool SynthID — which embeds a digital watermark directly into the pixels of the image, making it detectable for identification but imperceptible to the human eye.

Over the next months, we’ll make Imagen 2’s popular editing features, like inpainting and outpainting, available in Imagen 3. And we’ll be expanding Imagen 3’s availability across Google products, like the Gemini app and web experience, Workspace, Ads and more.

Acknowledgements

Core contributors

Jason Baldridge, Jakob Bauer, Mukul Bhutani, Nicole Brichtova, Andrew Bunner, Kelvin Chan, Yichang Chen, Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo, Sander Dieleman, Yuqing Du, Zach Eaton-Rosen, Hongliang Fei, Nando de Freitas, Yilin Gao, Evgeny Gladchenko, Mandy Guo, Alex Haig, Will Hawkins, Hexiang (Frank) Hu, Huilian Huang, Tobenna Peter Igwe, Christos Kaplanis, Siavash Khodadadeh, Yelin Kim, Ksenia Konyushkova, Karol Langner, Eric Lau, Shixin Luo, Soňa Mokrá, Henna Nandwani, Yasumasa Onoe, Aäron van den Oord, Zarana Parekh, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Hang Qi, Rui Qian, Deepak Ramachandran, Abdullah Rashwan, Ali Razavi, Robert Riachi, Hansa Srinivasan, Srivatsan Srinivasan, Robin Strudel, Benigno Uria, Oliver Wang, Su Wang, Austin Waters, Chris Wolff, Auriel Wright, Zhisheng Xiao, Hao Xiong, Keyang Xu, Marc van Zee, Junlin Zhang, Katie Zhang, Wenlei Zhou and Konrad Zolna.

Contributors

Ola Aboubakar, Canfer Akbulut, Javier Lopez Alberca, Nina Anderson, Marco Andreetto, Lora Aroyo, Burcu Karagol Ayan, Ben Bariach, Sherry Ben, Dana Berman, Irina Blok, Pankil Botadra, Jenny Brennan, Karla Brown, John Buckley, Elie Bursztein, Ben Caine, Viral Carpenter, Norman Casagrande, Ming-Wei Chang, Solomon Chang, Shamik Chaudhuri, Tony Chen, John Choi, Yu-Chuan Su, Dmitry Churbanau, Nathan Clement, Matan Cohen, Forrester Cole, Vincent Du, Praneet Dutta, Tom Eccles, Ndidi Elue, Ashley Feden, Shlomi Fruchter, Frankie Garcia, Roopal Garg, Ahmed Ghazy, Bryant Gipson, Dawid Górny, Yoni Halpern, Susan Hao, Amir Hertz, Ed Hirst, Tingbo Hou, Mohamed Ibrahim, Dirichi Ike-Njoku, Vlad Ionescu, William Isaac, Xuhui Jia, Gemma Jennings, Donovon Jenson, Kerry Jones, Xiaoen Ju, Christos Kaplanis, Jacob Kelly, Suraj Kothawade, Jolanda Kumakaw, Dana Kurniawan, Dmitry Lagun, Jason Lee, Tao Li, Maggie Li-Calis, Yuchi Liu, Kristian Lum, Chase Malik, John Mellor, Inbar Mosseri, Tom Murray, Aida Nematzadeh, Paul Nicholas, João Gabriel Oliveira, Michela Paganini, Roni Paiss, Alicia Parrish, Anne Peckham, Tobias Pfaff, Alex Pirozhenko, Ryan Poplin, Utsav Prabhu, Yuan Qi, Cyrus Rashtchian, Charvi Rastogi, Amit Raul, Ali Razavi, Susanna Ricco, Felix Riedel, Dirk Robinson, Pankaj Rohatgi, Bill Rosgen, Sarah Rumbley, Anthony Salgado, Florian Schroff, Candice Schumann, Tanmay Shah, Brendan Shillingford, Kaushik Shivakumar, Dennis Shtatnov, Zach Singer, Valerii Sokolov, Thibault Sottiaux, Brad Stone, Eric Tabellion, Shuai Tang, David Tao, Kurt Thomas, Gregory Thornton, Andeep Toor, Aayush Upadhyay, Cristina Vasconcelos, Andrey Voynov, Amanda Walker, Miaosen Wang, Simon Wang, Stanley Wang, Qifei Wang, Yuxiao Wang, Olivia Wiles, Jianbo Yang, Luo Yu, Mete Yurtoglu, Andrew Xue, Ali Zand, Han Zhang, Jiageng Zhang, Catherine Zhao, Miao Zhou, Shengqi Zhu and Zhenkai Zhu

Advisors

Dawn Bloxwich, Mahyar Bordbar, Luis C. Cobo, Eli Collins, Tulsee Doshi, Anca Dragan, Douglas Eck, Demis Hassabis, Tom Hume, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Helen King, Yeqing Li, Kathy Meier-Hellstern, Oriol Vinyals and Yori Zwols