Founder and CEO of Stability AI resigns

Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI, has stepped down to become an advocate for decentralized AI. Mostaque founded the company in 2020 and was instrumental in developing the popular open-source image generation model Stable Diffusion, which has seen hundreds of millions of downloads since its release in August 2022. However, during his tenure, … Read more

Stable Audio 2.0: Songs by text command

Stability AI has released Stable Audio 2.0, an update to its generative audio AI. The new version can create audio clips of up to three minutes from text descriptions. Stable Audio 2.0 can also transform uploaded audio files based on natural language instructions. The company has seemingly taken copyright protection very seriously: It says it … Read more

Stability AI stumbles

The British startup has popularized the “diffusion“ technique for AI image generation developed by Munich students. Now Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann and Dominik Lorenz have left the company, three of the original five people involved in the research project. Source: Forbes

Stable Video 3D announced

Stable Video 3D creates 3D models from a single photo. It can be used for free for non-commercial applications.

Jasper integrates Stability AI’s Clipdrop

San Francisco startup Jasper aims to provide the most comprehensive AI marketing assistant. And that includes not only creating and editing text, but also images and graphics. Stability AI acquired Clipdrop a year ago. Source: VentureBeat

Stable Diffusion 3 image generator announced

Stability AI is a provider of numerous AI tools that focuses more than others on open availability. There is now a large family of image generators that can be used on your own computer under the name Stable Diffusion. The recently announced Stable Diffusion 3 promises better quality in the future. This is especially true … Read more

An overview of AI image generators

While more attention is often focused on text-based AI offerings, AI image generators such as Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and others have come a long way. Here is an overview of important offerings: Dall-E 3 Like ChatGPT, Dall-E is made by OpenAI and is integrated into the chatbot’s interface. As a user, you tell ChatGPT … Read more

AI image generator Stable Cascade runs on standard PCs

The creators of Stable Diffusion give a preview of Stable Cascade, which, thanks to its particular architecture, can be used on PCs without specialized and expensive hardware. Source: Stability.ai