> I've spent the last half hour trying to figure out what this company is, and I still have no idea. My first stop was their website and I could not find a sing

> I've spent the last half hour trying to figure out what this company is, and I still have no idea. My first stop was their website and I could not find a single sentence providing concrete details regarding their value proposition. As much as it sucks, they don't owe the general public an explanation of their business plan. They apparently have access to investors and can explain it to them directly. > but I still am not sure what the relationship is between Stability AI and the researchers that developed the stable diffusion model. Another post trending on HN today about data laundering says that Stable AI funds the university research behind Stable Diffusion. The data laundering comes from the university using otherwise copyrighted data for "research purposes" and Stable AI can in turn use the trained model commercially, sidestepping the fact that the underlying data is not available for commercial purposes. Another way to read that situation is simply that it is easier to outsource your research than build your own team.