I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model.
Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money.
I wish for a world where Stability gave away the weights, but had a monetization loop to keep going. Imagine if we had OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability to counter Google. And imagine if the US had a sizable open weights company.
I wonder if we just discovered that we’re living in that world. :)
(To fill in some gaps: they’ve consistently had a revenue model, first subscriptions to use their models commercially then fixed-floor cost per generation with revenue sharing with them)
Blog post: https://stability.ai/news-updates/meet-stable-audio-3-the-mo...
A bit bizarre that there's not a single audio example in that post. But the model is available on their gen-AI service: https://stableaudio.com/
This is a very small item, but I found it interesting that the paper does not credit Stability AI in the author bylines.
"We also support inpainting, enabling targeted audio editing and the continuation of short recordings."
I didn't know there were models for that. Very cool!
hmm stableaudio.com seems to be dead tho? at least it is for me
Stability.ai is still around?
I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model.
Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money.
I wish for a world where Stability gave away the weights, but had a monetization loop to keep going. Imagine if we had OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability to counter Google. And imagine if the US had a sizable open weights company.
I wonder if we just discovered that we’re living in that world. :)
(To fill in some gaps: they’ve consistently had a revenue model, first subscriptions to use their models commercially then fixed-floor cost per generation with revenue sharing with them)