Getty Images has largely lost its London lawsuit against AI company Stability AI, though it secured a partial victory on trademark infringement. Sam Tobin reports for Reuters. The stock image company originally sued Stability AI for copyright breach, claiming the company used Getty’s images to train its Stable Diffusion image generator. However, Getty dropped this …
Major players in the music and gaming industries are moving from legal disputes over copyright to strategic collaborations with generative AI companies. This shift focuses on creating licensed AI tools that ensure artists and rights holders are compensated and maintain control over their work. A key example is the recent settlement between Universal Music Group …
Stability AI has launched Stable Audio 2.5, a generative audio model built specifically for enterprise use. The company claims a new technique allows the model to produce high-quality audio in just eight computational steps, down from 50. Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat that this breakthrough can cut production time from weeks to minutes. According …
AMD and Stability AI have launched a new version of the Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium image generator. According to an article by Anton Shilov in Tom’s Hardware, this model runs locally on laptops equipped with AMD’s latest Ryzen AI processors. It allows users to create high-resolution images from text prompts offline, without an internet connection. …
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 …