Stable Diffusion Finally Released To The Public

Jim Clyde Monge
CodeX
Published in
3 min readAug 25, 2022

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A side by side image of a girl and a stunning lightning street photo generated by Stable Diffusion AI
Image from Stability AI

Stability AI has announced the public release of its open source Artificial Intelligence text-to-image model called Stable Diffusion.

This is huge.

Yesterday, the CEO and founder of the company, Emad Mostaque, made a public announcement on Twitter.

“Proud of everyone involved in releasing this tech that is the first of a series of models to activate the creative potential of humanity,” he said

Why should you care?

It’s open source.

It means you can get it from the internet for free — weights and all.

You can use your local GPU to run it. This means that whether you like it or not, the latest trends in text-to-art AI models are both more available and more transparent.

Today we all made the World a more creative, happier and communicative place. More to come in the next few days but I for one can’t wait to see what you all create. Let’s activate humanity’s potential. — Emad

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