Stability AI
The lab behind Stable Diffusion, with image, video, audio and 3D models available by API or self-hosted licence.
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About Stability AI
What it is
Stability AI develops generative models across image, video, audio and 3D, including the Stable Diffusion family that much of the open image ecosystem was built on. They are offered through a platform API and under self-hosted licences for running on your own hardware.
Why it's different
Its significance is historical as much as current: releasing usable open image weights is what created the ecosystem of tools, fine-tunes and interfaces that everything else in this category grew out of. The company has since moved toward enterprise licensing, so the practical question today is licence terms rather than capability - what you may do commercially with a given model differs by model and has changed over time. Read the terms for the specific version you intend to use.
How people use it
Self-hosted image generation where data cannot leave your infrastructure. Audio and 3D generation from the same vendor. Building products on open weights you can fine-tune. Confirm the commercial licence for the exact model version before shipping, because this is the part that has caught people out repeatedly.
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