Today I would like to talk to you about an AI company headquartered in London. Although it is small, its contribution to this wave of AI is not small. Good products and companies are worth recommending to everyone.
Open Source Generative Painting Stable Diffusion
When it comes to Stability AI, it is somewhat unfamiliar, but when it comes to Stable Diffusion, friends who are familiar with AI painting must not be too unfamiliar. The emergence of open source Stable Diffusion has promoted the advancement of AI generative painting. This open-source platform is the second modified product, and it has completed commercial operation. Stability AI also provides an online version for Stable Diffusion to generate some revenue for itself, but the news in the past two days reflects that Stability AI's company has relatively low revenue, which still puts a certain amount of pressure on normal operations.
Online Platform:
https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream
But being open source and running on relatively simple hardware has helped it quickly accumulate a large number of users. Stability AI raised $100 million in funding last October, valuing the company at $1 billion.
Stable Diffusion XL
In the field of commercial operation of generative painting, Midjourney is definitely in the leading position, and no one can shake it, especially in the V5 version, it has improved to a higher level in the handling of details such as hands. Although Stable Diffusion is free and open source, it takes many attempts to generate high-quality images. Stability AI recently announced that Stable Diffusion XL, which is under development, has started to be tested by the public. It is currently available for free trial on the Clipdrop platform. The model is still in the training stage and will be open-sourced when the parameters are stable. Image detail is much better and almost completely controllable.
https://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion
Open source large language model StableLM
Recently, Stability AI announced the release of the open source large language model (LLM) "StableLM", which has been made available to developers on GitHub. Similar to ChatGPT's competitors, StableLM is trained based on Pile open source big data, data sources include Wiki, Stack Exchange and PubMed, etc. According to Stability AI, the available parameters of the StableLM model are between 3B and 7B, and models with parameters between 15B and 65B will be launched later. Since Meta Company open-sourced LLaMa, few heavyweight companies in the industry have launched open-source products. The emergence of StableLM has indeed injected new vitality into the industry, and domestic friends engaged in the application layer have explored a new continent.
All StableLM models are hosted on the Hugging Face hub, view them via the link below.
https://huggingface.co/stabilityai
other products
Init ML, the developer of Clipdrop, is currently acquired by Stability AI. After the acquisition, it has integrated its Stable Diffusion into it to provide online services, and also provides other image processing tools.
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https://clipdrop.co/
In supporting the open source community, Stability AI recently funded the research community Eleuther AI with several startups such as Hugging Face.
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