Artificial intelligence · 2022
Stable Diffusion
An open-weights image model that runs on a gaming GPU.
Stability AI, CompVis at LMU Munich and Runway released Stable Diffusion in August 2022, diffusing in a compressed latent space so it ran on consumer cards with under 10 GB of memory. Open weights spawned a huge ecosystem of fine-tunes, plugins and tools.
What it built on 3
What it led to 1
Related measurements
The dashed line marks when it first worked.
Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)
ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)