Two federal judges ruled in favor of AI companies this week in closely watched copyright lawsuits over training data usage. Meta Platforms escaped a lawsuit from authors including Sarah Silverman and Andrew Sean Greer who claimed the company used millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its Llama AI model. San Francisco Judge Vince …
Getty Images is spending millions of dollars in legal fees to fight what its CEO calls “unfair competition” by AI companies that use copyrighted material without permission. Craig Peters told CNBC that AI firms are stealing protected content to train their models for commercial gain. The photo licensing company is suing Stability AI, the British …
Stability AI has released Stable Virtual Camera, a new multi-view diffusion model that transforms 2D images into videos. According to Ana Guillen, the research preview enables users to generate immersive videos with realistic depth and perspective without complex reconstruction or scene-specific optimization. The model can create videos from a single image or up to 32 …
Stability AI has released its latest text-to-image generation model, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, on Amazon’s Bedrock service. As reported by Sean Michael Kerner for VentureBeat, this marks AWS as the only public cloud service offering Stability AI’s flagship models. The integration allows enterprises to access multiple AI models through a single unified API, meeting the …
Stability AI has achieved significant financial turnaround under new CEO Prem Akkaraju, according to statements made at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference. As reported by Kali Hays for Fortune, the AI company has eliminated all debt and experienced triple-digit growth in its API and licensing business. Akkaraju, who joined six months ago alongside new investors including …
Stability AI has unveiled its latest family of image generation models: Stable Diffusion 3.5. According to the company, it includes three variants – Large, Large Turbo and Medium – that are said to be characterized by improved adaptability and versatility. The Large variant with 8 billion parameters is available immediately, while the Medium model is …
James Cameron, director of blockbusters like Avatar and Titanic, has joined the board of directors of Stability.ai. The company develops the Stable Diffusion AI model for image and video generation. Cameron sees great potential in the combination of generative AI and CGI for filmmaking. Furthermore, Andy Serkis, known for his motion capture roles, is also …
AI startup Stability AI, which specializes in image generation and is known for its Stable Diffusion tool, is acquired by a group of investors led by former Facebook president Sean Parker after financial difficulties. The investors provide $80 million to recapitalize the company. The goal is to develop a viable business model for Stability AI …
Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a smaller version of its image generation model that can run on PCs with as little as 5GB of VRAM. According to Stability AI, the model offers comparable quality to the larger version and could therefore be an attractive option for users with limited resources.
Stability AI releases “Stable Audio Open,” a new AI model for the free creation of sounds and pieces of music up to 47 seconds in length. However, due to the training material, it is limited to English descriptions and Western music styles.