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Stable Diffusion Released
Stability AI released Stable Diffusion, an open-source text-to-image diffusion model that could run on consumer GPUs. Unlike DALL-E, it was freely available, democratizing access to high-quality AI image generation and sparking a wave of creative AI applications.
- Open-source text-to-image model
- Runs on consumer GPUs (8GB VRAM)
- 1B+ parameter diffusion model
- Democratized image generation
- Enabled vast creative ecosystem