alt Hacker NewsStability.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.
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There are plenty of companies with open weights.
Interesting that Google is the counter target in your mind. Anthropic is the only company mentioned that doesn't release any open weight models -- as a so-called "public benefit corporation" this is arguably a glaring lack.
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)
Think it's more they died because they fumbled Stable Diffusion 2 and 3, also the seemingly the real image talent left to Blackforest Labs plenty of others are doing ok shipping open models.