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Can someone shed some light on the ownership structure of Stable Diffusion? AFAIK the company getting all the attention and funding (Stability.ai incorporated

• nwoli 4y ago
  They’re employing some of the main authors from that university.
• swyx 4y ago
  stable diffusion 1.0 was a one off collaboration between runway, compvis, and stability ai. (https://research.runwayml.com/the-research-origins-of-stable-difussion https://research.runwayml.com/the-research-origins-of-stable...) it seems since then the groups have gone their separate ways, with stability releasing an independent stable diffusion 2.0 and runway quite publicly distancing themselves from it https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/12/05/runway-ml-series-c-funding-500-million-valuation/?sh=75a88e0a2e64 https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/12/05/runway-ml... stability is now better funded than runway and about to close a round valuing it at 4bn according to recent reports. there's a central stability team and then it tends to fund/work with other organizations very closely like Laion, CarperAI, Harmonai, and others listed on its website (https://stability.ai/ https://stability.ai/). i am not an insider i just have read a bunch of stuff and this is my best guess right now