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Celebrating one year(ish) of Stable Diffusion … and what a year it’s been!
Stability AI is on a mission to build the foundation that activates humanity's potential through our open access foundation models, allowing developers everywhere to download and build on top of our code for free.

Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices
Our latest language model, Stable LM 3B, is a compact language model designed to operate on portable digital devices like handhelds and laptops.

Announcing Stable Audio, a product for music & sound generation
Stable Audio is a first-of-its-kind product that uses the latest generative AI techniques to deliver faster, higher-quality music via an easy-to-use web interface.


Announcing Japanese InstructBLIP Alpha
Stability AI released its first Japanese vision-language model, Japanese InstructBLIP Alpha. It can generate textual descriptions for input images as well as generate answers to questions given images.

SDXL Gets Boost from NVIDIA TensorRT
Stability AI is proud to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA that will significantly enhance the speed of our popular text-to-image generative AI product, Stable Diffusion XL. This marks a substantial improvement in the speed and efficiency of our SDXL, thereby drawing us closer to our mission of building the foundation to activate humanity’s potential.

Stable Chat, research preview and participation in DEF CON AI Village
We are launching Stable Chat research preview, a new web interface that empowers the AI community to interactively evaluate our large language models. We are committed to promoting transparency in AI, and our participation in DEF CON deepens our collaboration with external security researchers.

Japanese StableLM, Marking Entry into International Language Model Market
Stability AI released its first Japanese language model, Japanese StableLM Alpha (JPLM), the best-performing openly available LM created for Japanese speakers.

Announcing Stable Code Alpha
Stability AI has just announced the release of StableCode, its very first LLM generative AI product for coding. This product is designed to assist programmers with their daily work while also providing a great learning tool for new developers ready to take their skills to the next level.

Announcing SDXL 1.0
The Stability AI team is proud to release as an open model SDXL 1.0, the next iteration in the evolution of text-to-image generation models. Following the limited, research-only release of SDXL 0.9, the full version of SDXL has been improved to be the world's best open image generation model.

Meet Stable Beluga 1 and Stable Beluga 2, Our Large and Mighty Instruction Fine-Tuned Language Models
Stability AI and its CarperAI lab proudly announce Stable Beluga 1 and its successor Stable Beluga 2 (formerly codenamed FreeWilly), two powerful new, open access, Large Language Models (LLMs). Both models demonstrate exceptional reasoning ability across varied benchmarks.

New Stability AI Developer Platform: Simplifying API Discovery and Accelerating Integration
Explore the New Stability AI Developer Platform, designed to streamline API discovery and integration. Our blog post unveils key features like the Sandbox Playground, Uniform Documentation, Simplified API Key Management, and Improved Navigation. Empower developers to unleash the full potential of our APIs.

Clipdrop Launches Stable Doodle
Stability AI launches Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool that converts a simple drawing into a dynamic image, providing limitless imaging possibilities to a range of professionals and hobbyists.

Stability AI launches SDXL 0.9: A Leap Forward in AI Image Generation
Discover SDXL 0.9, Stability AI's cutting-edge release in the Stable Diffusion suite. Unleashing remarkable image and composition precision, this upgrade revolutionizes generative AI imagery. From hyper-realistic media production to design and industrial advancements, explore the limitless possibilities of SDXL's practical applications.

Peter Gabriel and Stability AI Announce #DiffuseTogether AI Animation Challenge Winners
Stability AI, the world’s leading open source artificial intelligence company, together with music legend Peter Gabriel, is proud to announce the success if its inaugural #DiffuseTogether challenge. The groundbreaking competition received hundreds of entries from artists invited to create AI-generated animations inspired by and set to the music of Peter Gabriel.

Clipdrop Launches Uncrop: The Ultimate Aspect Ratio Editor
Have you ever taken a photo, only to later realize that the framing could have been better? Or perhaps you have an old image with a subject you want to highlight, but the surrounding context is missing. With the power of outpainting, Clipdrop launches Uncrop, a groundbreaking tool that makes generation borderless and revolutionizes the way we change image ratios.

Clipdrop launches Reimagine XL
Unleash your creativity with Reimagine XL by Clipdrop! Upgrade to the ultimate image reimagination tool, exclusively on Clipdrop. Remove pixel sourcing, and get bold and unique results. High-quality output handles various aspect ratios. No technical know-how is needed. Redecorate, create, transform. Explore now!

Stability AI Releases StableStudio, the Open Source Future of DreamStudio
Stability AI introduces StableStudio, the open-source version of DreamStudio, its premier text-to-image consumer application. This release marks a new era in the company's imaging pipeline and emphasizes its commitment to advancing open-source development within the AI ecosystem.

Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to the United States Senate
Stability AI emphasizes the importance of open models in a letter coinciding with the United States Senate hearing on AI oversight. Openness and transparency will improve safety, foster competition, and ensure strategic leadership in critical AI capabilities. Discover how open models can democratize access to AI tools.

Stability AI releases Stable Animation SDK, a powerful text-to-animation tool for developers.
Stability AI has released Stable Animation SDK, a powerful tool that allows artists and developers to create stunning animations using advanced Stable Diffusion models. With the ability to create animations from prompts, source images, or source videos, users can fully utilize all the Stable Diffusion models, including Stable Diffusion 2.0 and Stable Diffusion XL.

License Update
Our new Community License is now free for research, non-commercial, and commercial use. You only need a paid Enterprise license if your yearly revenues exceed USD$1M and you use Stability AI models in commercial products or services.

Stability AI Secures Significant New Investment from World-Class Investor Group and Appoints Prem Akkaraju as CEO
Stability AI Secures Significant New Investment from World-Class Investor Group and Appoints Prem Akkaraju as CEO.

Announcing the Open Release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Our Most Sophisticated Image Generation Model to Date
We are excited to announce the launch of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, the latest and most advanced text-to-image AI model in our Stable Diffusion 3 series.

Reflecting on Computex Taipei and the Exciting Journey Ahead
Computex Taipei, Asia’s largest tech event, saw groundbreaking announcements from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. Stability AI was proud to share the stage with some of the brightest minds in tech and AI, where our co-CEO Christian Laforte announced the upcoming launch of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, our most advanced image generation product.

Introducing Stable Audio Open - An Open Source Model for Audio Samples and Sound Design
We’re excited to announce Stable Audio Open, an open source model optimised for generating short audio samples, sound effects and production elements using text prompts.

Stable Artisan: Media Generation and Editing on Discord
One of the most frequent requests from the Stable Diffusion community is the ability to use our models directly on Discord. Today, we are excited to introduce Stable Artisan, a user-friendly bot for media generation on Discord.

Stability AI Joins Thorn and All Tech Is Human to Enact Child Safety Commitments for Generative AI
We have joined Thorn, All Tech is Human, and other leading companies in the effort to prevent the misuse of generative AI technologies to perpetrate, proliferate, and further sexual harms against children.

Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available
We are pleased to announce the availability of Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion 3 Turbo on the Stability AI Developer Platform API.

MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data
Continuing research into neuroscience and machine learning, today MedARC releases a state-of-the-art fMRI-to-image reconstruction model that is shown to work well with just 1 hour of training data.

Introducing Stable LM 2 12B
Introducing the latest additions to our Stable LM 2 language model series: a 12 billion parameter base model and an instruction-tuned variant, trained on 2 trillion tokens in seven languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Dutch. This medium-sized model balances strong performance, efficiency, memory requirements, and speed, following our established Stable LM 2 1.6B framework as detailed in our previously released technical report.