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by chmod775 1162 days ago
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...