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Seems the CEO/Founder of Runway has replied that there hasn't been any leaks and it's a proper release, made as permitted by the license and therefore should be

Seems the CEO/Founder of Runway has replied that there hasn't been any leaks and it's a proper release, made as permitted by the license and therefore should be online soon again. > Cris here - the CEO and Co-founder of Runway. Since our founding in 2018, we’ve been on a mission to empower anyone to create the impossible. So, we’re excited to share this newest version of Stable Diffusion so that we can continue delivering on our mission. > This version of Stable Diffusion is a continuation of the original High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models work that we created and published (now more commonly referred to as Stable Diffusion). Stable Diffusion is an AI model developed by Patrick Esser from Runway and Robin Rombach from LMU Munich. The research and code behind Stable Diffusion was open-sourced last year. The model was released under the CreativeML Open RAIL M License. > We confirm there has been no breach of IP as flagged and we thank Stability AI for the compute donation to retrain the original model. https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/discussions/1#6351a36ca9a9ae18220726c7 https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/discus... Edit: According to Discord messages from Emad Mostaque (founder of Stability AI) they have taken back the takedown request and seems this is the official release of the Stable Diffusion model version 1.5.

hwers 4y ago
Sounds to me like runway released it without consulting stability, called it “1.5” - which according to the license they’re allowed to do but pretty scammy since emad had hyped a model with that label. And now stability is deciding to call this the official release to be nice to runway and avoid a general PR thing and community infight.
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- the_duke 4y ago
  To me it seems the other way around. 1.5 was apparently held back by Stability for weeks. Runway finally decided to just release it. Stability requested a take down, and here you see the Runway CEO telling Stability in no uncertain terms "this ours to release, we created it, it's under an OS license, you don't hold any IP rights here; all you did was provide compute" If anything this is a pretty stern rebuke of Stability and a sign of considerable disagreement between the two parties.
  - hwers 4y ago
    Well if that’s the case that’s still a pretty shitty thing to do on runways part. Just be curteous to what stability’s needs are, keep good business relations. Weird behaviour and I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future runway are silently excluded from before-public releases (which seems to be many in the years ahead).
    - ekelsen 4y ago
      didn't runway create the model? How could stability exclude them?
    - pabs3 4y ago
      Doesn't the "OS license" mean that Runway has permission to release it already? Ack that there might be other agreements and business relations involved though.
      - hwers 4y ago
        Release it, fine. There’s been lots of fine tuned and continued trained SD models. Just don’t call it “1.5” which is the specific label for the model stability is training internally. Again the license ‘permits’ them to do it but seems like a very bad business decision since runway given what their service does would likely benefit hugely from early access to eg stability’s future text2video models (etc), which they now likely won’t get until everyone else (leaving someone else to possibly take market share in their field, and if this is the trade - because they got ‘impatient’ - that seems awfully not smart).
        orbifold 4y ago
        It seems very weird to me that “stability” is building a company around something they didn’t create.
    - ahtihn 4y ago
      Seems to me that stability AI did a pretty shitty thing and runway ran out of patience. Pretty weird to paint runway as the bad guys here.
rasz 4y ago
Hilarious. So a VC darling $100mil investment company is just a server farm dishing free compute donations around to get some good PR and doesnt own anything.

hwers 4y ago

Sounds to me like runway released it without consulting stability, called it “1.5” - which according to the license they’re allowed to do but pretty scammy since emad had hyped a model with that label. And now stability is deciding to call this the official release to be nice to runway and avoid a general PR thing and community infight.

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the_duke 4y ago
To me it seems the other way around. 1.5 was apparently held back by Stability for weeks. Runway finally decided to just release it. Stability requested a take down, and here you see the Runway CEO telling Stability in no uncertain terms "this ours to release, we created it, it's under an OS license, you don't hold any IP rights here; all you did was provide compute" If anything this is a pretty stern rebuke of Stability and a sign of considerable disagreement between the two parties.
- hwers 4y ago
  Well if that’s the case that’s still a pretty shitty thing to do on runways part. Just be curteous to what stability’s needs are, keep good business relations. Weird behaviour and I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future runway are silently excluded from before-public releases (which seems to be many in the years ahead).
  - ekelsen 4y ago
    didn't runway create the model? How could stability exclude them?
  - pabs3 4y ago
    Doesn't the "OS license" mean that Runway has permission to release it already? Ack that there might be other agreements and business relations involved though.
    - hwers 4y ago
      Release it, fine. There’s been lots of fine tuned and continued trained SD models. Just don’t call it “1.5” which is the specific label for the model stability is training internally. Again the license ‘permits’ them to do it but seems like a very bad business decision since runway given what their service does would likely benefit hugely from early access to eg stability’s future text2video models (etc), which they now likely won’t get until everyone else (leaving someone else to possibly take market share in their field, and if this is the trade - because they got ‘impatient’ - that seems awfully not smart).
      - orbifold 4y ago
        It seems very weird to me that “stability” is building a company around something they didn’t create.
  - ahtihn 4y ago
    Seems to me that stability AI did a pretty shitty thing and runway ran out of patience. Pretty weird to paint runway as the bad guys here.

rasz 4y ago

Hilarious. So a VC darling $100mil investment company is just a server farm dishing free compute donations around to get some good PR and doesnt own anything.