Enlarge / Filmmaker James Cameron. reader comments 41 On Tuesday, Stability AI announced that renowned filmmaker James Cameron—of Terminator and Skynet fame—has joined its board of directors. Stability is best known for its pioneering but highly controversial Stable Diffusion series of AI image-synthesis models, first launched in 2022, which can generate images based on text… Read More »
Enlarge / AI-generated image by FLUX.1 dev: “A beautiful queen of the universe holding up her hands, face in the background.” reader comments 24 On Thursday, AI-startup Black Forest Labs announced the launch of its company and the release of its first suite of text-to-image AI models, called FLUX.1. The German-based company, founded by researchers… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image created using Stable Diffusion 3 of a girl lying in the grass. reader comments 245 On Wednesday, Stability AI released weights for Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, an AI image-synthesis model that turns text prompts into AI-generated images. Its arrival has been ridiculed online, however, because it generates images of humans… Read More »
Enlarge / Stable Diffusion 3 generation with the prompt: studio photograph closeup of a chameleon over a black background. reader comments 62 On Thursday, Stability AI announced Stable Diffusion 3, an open-weights next-generation image-synthesis model. It follows its predecessors by reportedly generating detailed, multi-subject images with improved quality and accuracy in text generation. The brief… Read More »
Enlarge / Example images generated using Stable Diffusion XL Turbo. Stable Diffusion XL Turbo / Benj Edwards reader comments 56 with On Tuesday, Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion XL Turbo, an AI image-synthesis model that can rapidly generate imagery based on a written prompt. So rapidly, in fact, that the company is billing it as… Read More »
Enlarge / Still examples of images animated using Stable Video Diffusion by Stability AI. Stability AI reader comments 30 with On Tuesday, Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, a new free AI research tool that can turn any still image into a short video—with mixed results. It’s an open-weights preview of two AI models that… Read More »
reader comments 61 with Imagine typing “dramatic intro music” and hearing a soaring symphony or writing “creepy footsteps” and getting high-quality sound effects. That’s the promise of Stable Audio, a text-to-audio AI model announced Wednesday by Stability AI that can synthesize music or sounds from written descriptions. Before long, similar technology may challenge musicians for… Read More »
Enlarge / Several examples of images generated using Stable Diffusion XL 1.0. Stable Diffusion reader comments 20 with On Wednesday, Stability AI released Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (SDXL), its next-generation open weights AI image synthesis model. It can generate novel images from text descriptions and produces more detail and higher-resolution imagery than previous versions of… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of the White House in front of a cybernetic background. Midjourney reader comments 22 with On Thursday, the White House announced a surprising collaboration between top AI developers, including OpenAI, Google, Antrhopic, Hugging Face, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Stability AI, to participate in a public evaluation of their generative AI systems… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “Stochastic Parrot” created by Stability AI. Benj Edwards / Stability AI / Stable Diffusion XL reader comments 65 with Share this story On Wednesday, Stability AI released a new family of open source AI language models called StableLM. Stability hopes to repeat the catalyzing effects of its Stable… Read More »