[chmod775]

Calling them "the" company behind Stable Diffusion is pushing it. Just Stable Diffusion the model, but not the idea, maybe.

As far as I know they pretty much just paid for servers to train a big shiny model on that was based on research they had no hand in. Throwing money at researchers after they came up with something good, just to let them build a big shiny version of it, does not retroactively make their accomplishments yours.

Basically they hold no rights to anything relevant, no patents, no secret sauce, nothing. Them going under after exhausting their money will hardly have any effect.

[m00x]

Stable diffusion is just the "brand" of the diffusion generative model, just like Midjourney.

If you look at the stable-diffusion repo, it says that SD is based off a colab with StabilityAI and Runway.

Most of the value from these models is the training + dataset. The architecture is open source, and we've had flavours of it for several years. SD has some improvements on how it handles diffusions, but most architecture out there use about the same, but with wildly different results.

[chmod775]

Someone from Runway (Patrick Esser) is actually listed as an author on the paper.[1]

The datasets used are provided by LAION.

Here is a honest summary of Stability.Ai's involvement[2]:

> In their project, the LMU scientists had the support of the start-up Stability.Ai, on whose servers the AI model was trained. “This additional computing power and the extra training examples turned our AI model into one of the most powerful image synthesis algorithms,” says the computer scientist with a smile.

[1]: https://ommer-lab.com/research/latent-diffusion-models/

[2]: https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/revolution...

[UncleEntity]

> As far as I know they pretty much just paid for servers to train a big shiny model on that was based on research they had no hand in.

Which is their business model.

Provide compute to people who can’t afford compute so the only people doing AI research aren’t doing so behind closed doors.

Now, it seems, giving away your product isn’t all that profitable and they need to “pivot” to find a way to keep the business running.

Judging from the interview posted elsewhere in the discussion they make no claim to be inventing anything but just wanted to democratize AI research.

[ShamelessC]

Mentioned in the article.

[chmod775]

The article says they aren't the "sole inventor". They aren't an inventor at all.