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Welcome to Kandinsky, the multi-lingual image generation model!
Kandinsky was officially released as part of the [Kandinsky-2 repo](https://github.com/ai-forever/Kandinsky-2) by:

- [Arseniy Shakhmatov](https://github.com/cene555)
- [Anton Razzhigaev](https://github.com/razzant)
- [Aleksandr Nikolich](https://github.com/AlexWortega)
- [Igor Pavlov](https://github.com/boomb0om)
- [Andrey Kuznetsov](https://github.com/kuznetsoffandrey)
- [Denis Dimitrov](https://github.com/denndimitrov)

## Kandinsky 2.1

Kandinsky 2.1 includes **three** public checkpoints:

- [Prior][https://huggingface.co/kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-1-prior]: A prior diffusion model mapping text embeddings to image embeddings
- [Text-to-Image / Image-to-Image][https://huggingface.co/kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-1]: A decoding diffusion model mapping image embeddings to images
- [Inpainting][https://huggingface.co/kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-1-inpaint]: A decoding diffusion model mapping image embeddings and masked images to images