I confess that I don't quite get the point here - is it just that they've paid the inference costs for a dataset than can be used for distillation/other research?
Essentially yes, it’s a data set that can help train or fine tune another model or similar research. From the site:
> Pico-Banana-400K serves as a versatile resource for advancing controllable and instruction-aware image editing.
Beyond single-step editing, the dataset enables multi-turn, conversational editing and reward-based training paradigms.
