Celebrating one year(ish) of Stable Diffusion … and wh

Celebrating one year(ish) of Stable Diffusion … and what a year it’s been! — Stability AI Celebrating one year(ish) of Stable Diffusion … and what a year it’s been! Oct 3 On August 22, 2022, Stability AI co-released Stable Diffusion alongside talented researchers from LMU Munich and Runway ML. It was a watershed moment in AI that unlocked the power of text-to-image models. One year later, we’ve grown our team by a factor of four, launched more than twenty new products, and become the world's only independent, open, multimodal generative AI company. TIME even named us one of its Most Influential Companies (under the category “biggest disruptors”)! Our secret sauce is no secret: We work hard, have the best talent and the most committed community of AI supporters in the world. Stability AI is on a mission to build the foundation that activates humanity's potential through our open access foundation models, allowing developers everywhere to download and build on top of our code for free. Easy accessibility meant that Stable Diffusion had garnered more than 10 million users globally in just two months, creating a moment where “the doors were off their hinges,” according to MIT Technology Review. That was just the start. Since then, we’ve open sourced three more versions of Stable Diffusion and billions of images have been generated. Our latest model, SDXL 1.0, can generate four HD images in less than three seconds. Our tech was even used to recreate brain activity in medical research, as referenced in Scientific American. Over the past year, we’ve released more than a dozen open access foundation models. A recent review of StableCode, our acclaimed large language model for code generation, summed up why we do this: “By democratizing AI-powered coding assistance, Stability AI opens the door for individuals from various backgrounds to harness the power of technology in problem-solving through coding. This approach could level the global technology playing field.”