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0 pointsanonylizard2y ago0 comments

Stability never had any revenue, nor any easy ways to measure their user base. Their 'growth' is basically dependant on them being able to release open source models that get so popular, unbeatable ecosystems get formed around them.

On this front. SD1.4/1.5 is extremely successful, but there has been no followup. SD2.0 was a total disaster that shocked the community, SD2.1 is still no better than SD1.5. StableLM currently is still a joke in performance. Like, they don't seem to even test their models before releasing them.

Compare their releases, to the polished and immediately dominant releases from OpenAI, and you have to question their researching chops. Did they only succeed with SD1.4 because of collaboration with other companies?

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emadm2y ago

Stability AI is 18 months old so far and has spent 100x less than OpenAI which was founded in 2015.

I think it unreasonable to compare at this stage, we are still early as a company and organisation.

We have revenue (to be announced) but release models differently as we are not proprietary.

The numbers in that deck were as reported on models developed by team members (we chose not to assert IP rights) in use by various applications.

We were exploring co-creation full stack at that point, now we are focusing on base open models with commercially licensed variants.

mountainriver2y ago

That’s a fair point, and what Stability has given the ecosystem has been amazing, I’m rooting for them as they are one of the only orgs left that is still committed to open source

capableweb2y ago

> Stability never had any revenue, nor any easy ways to measure their user base

They do, for the products they have/will have. Right now, I think it's only DreamStudio, but like any SaaS product, they can and surely do measure the amount of users, and trivial for them to see the revenue.

What you're talking about, the models they help release, are not products themselves, more like research output they give away for free. Probably in order to drive users to their paid products.

anonylizardOP2y ago

Dreamstudio is a joke, not intended to be a serious product, but merely for someone to try out SD in under a minute.

99.9% of SD usage happens outside of Dreamstudio. The power of SD comes from using fine-tuned models, and dreamstudio doesn't allow that (For copyright reasons presumably). There are websites like happyaccidents that do allow using fine-tunes, because they are willing to shoulder the massive legal risk as smaller startups.

SD's primary business model was always intended to sign up corporate clients in a semi-LLM-consulting/support role for their open sourced models. Like Redhat in a way. And to succeed in that space, you need massive name recognition.

capableweb2y ago

As someone who develops software using Stable Diffusion and gets sold for money, I'm well aware how simple Dreamstudio is. No professional would use it. Doesn't mean they are not developing it to be a real product, that they'll try to get people to buy for real money.

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dragonwriter2y ago

> Right now, I think it’s only DreamStudio

Clipdrop, also, at least.

tivert2y ago

> SD2.0 was a total disaster that shocked the community

Do you have any more details on this?

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emadm2y ago

Stability AI is 18 months old so far and has spent 100x less than OpenAI which was founded in 2015.

I think it unreasonable to compare at this stage, we are still early as a company and organisation.

We have revenue (to be announced) but release models differently as we are not proprietary.

The numbers in that deck were as reported on models developed by team members (we chose not to assert IP rights) in use by various applications.

We were exploring co-creation full stack at that point, now we are focusing on base open models with commercially licensed variants.

mountainriver2y ago

That’s a fair point, and what Stability has given the ecosystem has been amazing, I’m rooting for them as they are one of the only orgs left that is still committed to open source

capableweb2y ago

> Stability never had any revenue, nor any easy ways to measure their user base

What you're talking about, the models they help release, are not products themselves, more like research output they give away for free. Probably in order to drive users to their paid products.

anonylizardOP2y ago

Dreamstudio is a joke, not intended to be a serious product, but merely for someone to try out SD in under a minute.

capableweb2y ago

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dragonwriter2y ago

> Right now, I think it’s only DreamStudio

Clipdrop, also, at least.

tivert2y ago

> SD2.0 was a total disaster that shocked the community

Do you have any more details on this?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse