[choxi]

That’s some expensive free marketing

[naillo]

Stable diffusion cost only 1 million, that's like 5 marketing people for SF salaries. Not sure they'd achieve better results than SD got them.

[ShamelessC]

Citation needed? That seems incredibly low. Is it considering the cost of paying researchers?

[naillo]

According to the man himself, Emad

[MacsHeadroom]

>That’s some expensive free marketing

No, it's free.

They need to make the models already in order to sell them as managed models.

Giving them away costs nothing once they're made.