The 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship started November 25, with key title sponsor Google. The pioneer of chess-playing technology, which has leveraged chess to discover its AI models, is now employing the same AI technologies to deliver various new chess-based experiences globally. Google’s Gemini Imagen 3 enhances the text to image generation feature’s capabilities. Also in a X post, mentioned the fun making letterforms as an text image.
Create Imagen 3 Generated Chess GenChess
Google Labs’s fun new experiment is GenChess, which applies Gemini Imagen 3, Google’s image generation model, to help players design chess pieces to their satisfaction. To try the game, users must log in with their Gmail account. After logging in, they may click on ‘Generate’ and then input the selected theme for the chess set, e.g., sushi or Pizza.
The feature, relying on Google’s Imagen 3 text-to-image model, illustrated in the short GIF shared by Google Labs on X, will allow playing the game with the designed chess set brought to life based on text inputs.
GenChess offers two modes: classic and creative. The classic set looks typically like a chess set, on the other hand, the creative has more abstract forms. The basic one slightly resembles a usual chess set; the creative one does not look like chess at all. When the model assembles a whole formation, players are allowed to modify selected components as well.
Google also made other chess-related announcements, such as a collaboration with the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and a coding competition for AI chess engines. Also, next month, the Chess Gem game is to be released; the participants will be able to play chess and chat with a Gemini-powered language model; available exclusively for Gemini Advanced subscribers.