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.
Stability AI has expanded its Stable LM 2 language model to 12 billion parameters, significantly increasing its performance. The company says the update strikes a balance between power, accuracy and accessibility. It positions the model as a part of larger systems in which language models can interact with each other and with external tools.
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, …
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 …
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 creates 3D models from a single photo. It can be used for free for non-commercial applications.
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