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Stability.ai is still around? I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model. Emad trained a lot of really great models,
by echelon 5mo ago
Stability.ai is still around?
I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model.
Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money.
I wish for a world where Stability gave away the weights, but had a monetization loop to keep going. Imagine if we had OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability to counter Google. And imagine if the US had a sizable open weights company.
- refulgentis 5mo agoI wonder if we just discovered that we’re living in that world. :) (To fill in some gaps: they’ve consistently had a revenue model, first subscriptions to use their models commercially then fixed-floor cost per generation with revenue sharing with them)
- victorbjorklund 5mo agoThere are plenty of companies with open weights.
- echelon 5mo agoI'd really love a list if you're offering.
- waffletower 5mo agoInteresting that Google is the counter target in your mind. Anthropic is the only company mentioned that doesn't release any open weight models -- as a so-called "public benefit corporation" this is arguably a glaring lack.
- whywhywhywhy 5mo agoThink it's more they died because they fumbled Stable Diffusion 2 and 3, also the seemingly the real image talent left to Blackforest Labs plenty of others are doing ok shipping open models.