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But they used to let you download the model weights to run on your own machine... But stable diffusion 3 is just in 'limited preview' with no public download

But they used to let you download the model weights to run on your own machine... But stable diffusion 3 is just in 'limited preview' with no public download links. One has to wonder, why the delay?

cthalupa 3y ago
That's nothing new with Stability. Even 1.5 was "released early" by RunwayML because they felt Stability was taking too long to release the weights instead of just providing them in DreamStudio. Stability will release them in the coming weeks.
nuz 3y ago
Both SD1.4 and SDXL was in limited preview for a few months before a public release. This has been their normal course of business for about 2 years now (since founding). They just do this to improve the weights via a beta test with less judgemental users before official release.
Sharlin 3y ago
How is a closed beta anything out of the ordinary? They know they would only get tons of shit flinged at them if they publicly released something beta-quality, even if clearly labeled as such. SD users can be a VERY entitled bunch.
- Filligree 3y ago
  Moreover, people would start training on the beta model, splitting the ecosystem if it doesn't die entirely. There's nothing good in that timeline.
  - Sharlin 3y ago
    Uff, that's a good point.
  - pennomi 3y ago
    Happened already with the SDXL 0.9 weights leak. People started training off of that and it quickly became wasted effort.
- causal 3y ago
  I've noticed a strange attitude of entitlement that seems to scale with how open a company is - Mistral and Stable Diffusion are on very sensitive ground with the open source community despite being the most open.
  - idle_zealot 3y ago
    If you try to court a community then it will expect more of you. Same as if you were to claim to be an environmentalist company then you would receive more scrutiny from environmentalists confirming your claims.
    - Sharlin 3y ago
      That's… not really relevant to Stability AI at all. SAI isn't "claiming" anything. They are show, not tell (well, mostly). They give a technology away for free the likes of which everybody else keeps very tightly locked behind SaaS. Then people bitch about said free technology.
      - bee_rider 3y ago
        I wonder why they didn’t call their company SharewareAI.
gopher2000 3y ago
Because first impressions matter. See the current perception of Gemini and its "woke parameters".

But they used to let you download the model weights to run on your own machine... But stable diffusion 3 is just in 'limited preview' with no public download links. One has to wonder, why the delay?

cthalupa 3y ago

That's nothing new with Stability. Even 1.5 was "released early" by RunwayML because they felt Stability was taking too long to release the weights instead of just providing them in DreamStudio. Stability will release them in the coming weeks.

nuz 3y ago

Both SD1.4 and SDXL was in limited preview for a few months before a public release. This has been their normal course of business for about 2 years now (since founding). They just do this to improve the weights via a beta test with less judgemental users before official release.

Sharlin 3y ago

How is a closed beta anything out of the ordinary? They know they would only get tons of shit flinged at them if they publicly released something beta-quality, even if clearly labeled as such. SD users can be a VERY entitled bunch.

Filligree 3y ago
Moreover, people would start training on the beta model, splitting the ecosystem if it doesn't die entirely. There's nothing good in that timeline.
- Sharlin 3y ago
  Uff, that's a good point.
- pennomi 3y ago
  Happened already with the SDXL 0.9 weights leak. People started training off of that and it quickly became wasted effort.
causal 3y ago
I've noticed a strange attitude of entitlement that seems to scale with how open a company is - Mistral and Stable Diffusion are on very sensitive ground with the open source community despite being the most open.
- idle_zealot 3y ago
  If you try to court a community then it will expect more of you. Same as if you were to claim to be an environmentalist company then you would receive more scrutiny from environmentalists confirming your claims.
  - Sharlin 3y ago
    That's… not really relevant to Stability AI at all. SAI isn't "claiming" anything. They are show, not tell (well, mostly). They give a technology away for free the likes of which everybody else keeps very tightly locked behind SaaS. Then people bitch about said free technology.
    - bee_rider 3y ago
      I wonder why they didn’t call their company SharewareAI.

gopher2000 3y ago

Because first impressions matter. See the current perception of Gemini and its "woke parameters".