Ric Flair wooo-ing in a blind grandmother's face at a pizza shop
Stability AI in talks to raise money from investor group
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/stability-ai-talks-raise-money-investor-group-2024-05-17/
AI startup Stability lays off 10% of staff after controversial CEO's exit: Read the full memo
AI startup Stability lays off 10% of staff after controversial CEO's exit: Read the full memo
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/18/ai-startup-stability-lays-off-10percent-of-employees-after-ceo-exit.html
Stability AI laid off several employees to "right-size" the business after a period of unsustainable growth, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.
How Stability AI’s Founder Tanked His Billion-Dollar Startup
How Stability AI’s Founder Tanked His Billion-Dollar Startup
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2024/03/29/how-stability-ais-founder-tanked-his-billion-dollar-startup/
Unpaid bills, bungled contracts and a disastrous meeting with Nvidia's kingmaker CEO. Inside the stunning downfall of Emad Mostaque.
Inside the $1 billion love affair between Stability AI’s ‘complicated’ founder and tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed—and how it turned bitter within months
Inside the $1 billion love affair between Stability AI’s ‘complicated’ founder and tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed—and how it turned bitter within months
https://fortune.com/2024/03/27/inside-stability-ai-emad-mostaque-bad-breakup-vc-investors-coatue-lightspeed/
Stability AI, led by CEO Emad Mostaque, emerged as one of the first high-flying startups in the generative AI boom, garnering a $1 billion seed valuation. Within months the relationship with investors broke down and spurred a campaign to oust Mostaque, who resigned on Saturday.
Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI As Company Flounders
Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI As Company Flounders
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/03/20/key-stable-diffusion-researchers-leave-stability-ai-as-company-flounders/
Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup.
AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step
AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step
https://news.mit.edu/2024/ai-generates-high-quality-images-30-times-faster-single-step-0321
A new distribution matching distillation (DMD) technique merges GAN principles with diffusion models, achieving 30x faster high-quality image generation in a single computational step and enhancing tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E.
Why is AI so bad at spelling? Because image generators aren't actually reading text
Why is AI so bad at spelling? Because image generators aren't actually reading text | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/why-is-ai-so-bad-at-spelling/
AIs are easily acing the SAT, defeating chess grandmasters and debugging code like it’s nothing. But put an AI up against some middle schoolers at the
Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping
Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/11/24097495/midjourney-bans-stability-ai-employees-data-theft-outage
Midjourney claims the alleged activity caused a 24-hour service outage.
Stable Diffusion 3 arrives to solidify early lead in AI imagery against Sora and Gemini
Stable Diffusion 3 arrives to solidify early lead in AI imagery against Sora and Gemini | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/stable-diffusion-3-arrives-to-solidify-early-lead-in-ai-imagery-against-sora-and-gemini/
Stability AI has announced Stable Diffusion 3, the latest and most powerful version of the company's image-generating AI model. While details are scant,
