ImageOpen weights
Stable Diffusion
Stability AI
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Superseded by Stable Diffusion XL
Specifications
- Type
- Image
- Access
- Open weights
- Released
- August 22, 2022
- License
- CreativeML OpenRAIL-M
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Image
Our take
The open release that put text-to-image generation in everyone’s hands. By running a latent diffusion model on consumer GPUs, it sparked an enormous ecosystem of tools, fine-tunes, and creative applications.