![]() The move led it to focus on commercializing its technology rather than making it more widely available, drawing criticism from the AI community - and Musk himself. ![]() OpenAI was launched as a nonprofit research organization by prominent technologists including Sam Altman and Elon Musk, but upon accepting a $1 billion investment from Microsoft in 2019, it became a for-profit business. The company’s website states that the company is “building open AI tools,” a mission that mirrors the initial intent of OpenAI to democratize access to artificial intelligence. It’s a double-edged sword for Stability AI, which has accumulated community goodwill precisely due to its open source approach that gives its users full access to its code. On 4chan, numerous threads have appeared with AI-generated deepfakes of celebrity nudes, while Reddit has banned at least four communities that were dedicated to posting “not safe for work” AI imagery made using Stable Diffusion. Moreover, unlike DALL-E and Midjourney, which have restrictions in place to prevent the generation of gory or pornographic images, Stable Diffusion’s open source nature allows users to bypass such a block. Last week, a testy debate broke out online after a Colorado fine arts competition awarded a top prize to an AI-generated work of art. These image generators are already facing controversy: Many of them have been trained by processing billions of images on the internet without the consent of the copyright holder, prompting debate over ethics and legality. Mostaque and his peers have said that the existing technology only represents the tip of the iceberg of what AI art is capable of creating: Future use cases could include drastically improved photorealism, video and animation. Google also revealed a text-to-image system, Imagen, in May, though it is not available to the public. ![]() It comes as AI image generators entered the zeitgeist this year, with the release of OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 in April and independent research lab Midjourney’s eponymous product in July. Stable Diffusion - created in collaboration with RunwayML, a video editing startup also backed by Coatue, and researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - has generated by far the most buzz among the company’s projects. “We’ve negotiated massive deals so we’d be profitable at the door versus most money-losing big corporations.”Įmad Mostaque, Stability AI founder and CEO Other open-source research groups it backs are developing tools for language, audio and biology. According to its website, text-to-image generation is only one component of a broader apparatus of AI-powered offerings that the company is helping to build. He then founded Stability AI in late 2020 with the mission of building open-source AI projects. In 2019, he launched Symmitree, a startup that aimed to reduce the cost of technology for people in poverty it shuttered after one year, according to his LinkedIn profile. He received a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science from Oxford University in 2005 and spent 13 years working at U.K. Mostaque, 39, hails from Bangladesh and grew up in England. The first version of Stable Diffusion itself cost just $600,000 to train, he wrote on Twitter - a fraction of the company’s total funding. ![]() “We’ve negotiated massive deals so we’d be profitable at the door versus most money-losing big corporations,” he claims. However, Mostaque said in an interview last month with Yannic Kilcher, a machine learning engineer and YouTube personality, that he has already penned partnerships with “governments and leading institutions” to sell the technology. So far, the company does not have a clear business model in place, according to three of the sources. By nature of being open source, Stability AI’s underlying technology is free to use. ![]()
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