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The Verge
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI lays off roughly 10 percent of its workforce

Stability AI laid off employees amidst expansion, upheaval, and legal challenges. [ more ]
Theregister
4 weeks ago
Data science

Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO leaves

Stability AI is restructuring after CEO departure, leading to layoffs to improve sustainability and focus on operations. [ more ]
Ars Technica
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator

Stable Diffusion 3 is a next-generation image-synthesis model by Stability AI with improved quality and accuracy in text generation.
Models in the Stable Diffusion 3 family range from 800 million to 8 billion parameters to accommodate running on various devices and generating detailed images. [ more ]
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TechCrunch
1 month ago
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Watch: What Stability AI's CEO departure means for other AI startups | TechCrunch

Stability AI facing public scrutiny
CEO departure leading to less centralized AI products
Focus on Stable Diffusion product [ more ]
TechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI CEO resigns because you can't beat centralized AI with more centralized AI | TechCrunch

Founder and CEO of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, steps down for decentralized AI.
Stability AI appoints COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte as interim co-CEOs. [ more ]
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Engadget
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stable Diffusion 3 is a new AI image generator that won't mess up text in pictures, its makers claim

Stable Diffusion 3 improves image quality and works better with multiple subjects in prompts
OpenAI's Sora raises concerns about creating realistic fake videos from text prompts [ more ]
The Verge
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI tries to stay ahead of the pack with a new image-generating AI model

Stability AI's new model, Stable Cascade, is faster and more powerful than its predecessor, Stable Diffusion.
Stable Cascade offers image generation features like variations of images, increasing resolution, inpainting, outpainting, and canny edge creation. [ more ]
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The Verge
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Getty lawsuit against Stability AI to go to trial in the UK

Getty Images lawsuit against Stability AI can move on to trial in the UK court.
Evidence suggests conflict in Stability AI's claims about the use of Getty's copyrighted materials. [ more ]
Futurism
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

People Are Animating Popular Memes With AI to Horrific Effect

Generative AI can now turn images into videos, leading to bizarre and uncanny animations.
Stability AI's new tool, Stable Video Diffusion, has been the site of some truly unsettling creations.
Stability AI has faced drama within the company, with former employees leaving over disagreements about fair use AI training data. [ more ]
Engadget
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

The AI startup behind Stable Diffusion is now testing generative video

Stability AI has released Stable Video Diffusion, a tool that allows users to create video from a single image.
The tool is currently only available for research purposes and has some limitations.
It has been trained on a dataset of millions of videos. [ more ]
www.fastcompany.com
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI's high-profile resignation got lost in the OpenAI chaos

Ed Newton-Rex, the former vice president of audio at Stability AI, resigned over a disagreement about copyright and fair use in AI companies.
Newton-Rex disagreed with the argument that large tech companies can use data, including scraped data from the internet, without consent.
His departure from Stability AI reflects a larger issue with how AI companies approach copyright and fair use. [ more ]
www.bbc.com
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

AI chief quits over 'exploitative' copyright row

Senior executive at Stability AI resigns over company's view on using copyrighted work without permission
Many AI firms argue that taking copyright content is 'fair use' [ more ]
Futurism
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI Exec Quits in Disgust Over Using Copyrighted Works to Train AI

Stability AI executive resigns due to disagreement over training generative AI models on copyrighted works.
The executive believes that using copyrighted works without permission for AI training is unfair and unacceptable in a society that relies on copyright for the creative arts. [ more ]
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Futurism
11 hours ago
Artificial intelligence

The Maker of Stable Diffusion Is Collapsing, Considering Sale

Stability AI, known for the Stable Diffusion AI image generator, is facing financial turmoil with massive debts and minimal revenue. [ more ]
Developer Tech News
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Stable Diffusion 3 API delivers powerful image generation

Stability AI introduces Stable Diffusion 3 text-to-image model through API and creation platform. [ more ]
Fortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Musicians are angry about generative AI. Stability AI's new music generator proves their point

AI-generated music advances with Stable Audio 2.0 allowing full-length songs creation.
Music industry artists express concern over AI tech impact on creativity and earnings. [ more ]
Forbes
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

How Stability AI's Founder Tanked His Billion-Dollar Startup

Stability AI founder faced financial struggles and leadership challenges, leading to a company downfall.
Despite public proclamations, internal issues such as unpaid bills and resignations plagued Stability AI. [ more ]
Futurism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Ousted Founder of Stability AI Seen Meeting With Microsoft CEO

Mostaque shared a selfie with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella post-resignation. Unclear if events are related.
Stability AI faced turmoil under Mostaque's leadership, including exaggerated claims and financial challenges. [ more ]
Futurism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Stable Diffusion CEO Resigns as Company Crumbles

Stability AI CEO resigned amidst internal turmoil
Stability AI facing financial, legal, and credibility issues [ more ]
The Verge
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI CEO resigns to "pursue decentralized AI"

Mostaque steps down from Stability AI to pursue decentralized AI.
Board appoints interim co-CEOs Shan Shan Wong and Christian Laforte. [ more ]
Futurism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI Is Falling Apart

Key AI developers resign from Stability AI impacting its popular text-to-image generator, Stable Diffusion.
Stability AI facing financial challenges and brain drain with key departures of executives and researchers. [ more ]
Ars Technica
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images

Midjourney banned Stability AI employees due to suspected bot activity for scraping prompt and image pairs.
Midjourney implemented a new policy of banning all employees of a company if aggressive automation or service disruption is detected. [ more ]
The Verge
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data theft

Midjourney banned Stability AI employees for alleged data scraping incident.
Midjourney implements a policy to ban companies involved in 'aggressive automation'. [ more ]
ReadWrite
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

New Stable Cascade model by Stability AI aims to enhance AI-driven art

Stability AI has unveiled a new model called Stable Cascade, offering more efficient and flexible image generation solutions.
Stable Cascade utilizes a modular three-stage architecture, resulting in improved training efficiency and customization. [ more ]
InfoQ
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI Releases 1.6 Billion Parameter Language Model Stable LM 2

Stability AI has released pre-trained model weights for the Stable LM 2 language model, a 1.6B parameter model trained on 2 trillion tokens of text data from seven languages.
The model is available in two versions: the base model and an instruction-tuned version called Stable LM 2 Zephyr. [ more ]
The Critic Magazine
6 months ago
Artificial intelligence

The shadow side of open source AI | Octavia Sheepshanks | The Critic Magazine

Openness in AI is essential for its positive promise to be fulfilled and dangers to be mitigated.
Publishing the source code of AI tools can lead to the proliferation of child sexual abuse material.
There is a disconnect between the idealistic view of open source in AI and the reality of its potential misuse. [ more ]
Medium
6 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI Introduces New 3D Enhancements to Stable Diffusion

Stability AI introduces new enhancements to its Stable Diffusion platform, including a Stable 3D model and a tool called Sky Replacer.
The new tools open up a greater range of content creation possibilities for prompt engineers, particularly in the realms of video games, animation, and real estate.
Stability AI is also introducing a tool called Stable Fine-Tuning to assist enterprises in fine-tuning images for specific use cases. [ more ]
Open Data Science - Your News Source for AI, Machine Learning & more
6 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI Introduces New 3D Enhancements to Stable Diffusion

Stability AI has introduced new enhancements to its Stable Diffusion platform, including a new Stable 3D model and a tool called Sky Replacer.
These enhancements open up a greater range of content creation opportunities for prompt engineers and have specific applications in the video game and real estate industries.
Stability AI is also introducing a tool called Stable Fine-Tuning to assist enterprises in fine-tuning images for specific use cases and integrating an invisible watermark for content authentication. [ more ]
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