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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Stable Diffusion comes up on Latent Space, the a16z Podcast, All-In, the MAD Podcast, Another Podcast
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- ▶ 3:35 Jon Noronha We're seeing stable diffusion as a model out there,
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:16 unnamed speaker Some type of state space and doing all of our optimization in the latent space, which stable diffusion did, uh, that worked extremely well, which reduces our state space dramatically because I'm in some latent high dimensional space.
- ▶ 1:03:05 unnamed speaker There's a version of this idea that's basically the stable diffusion idea.
Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
- ▶ 41:14 Jason Calacanis You worked at Stable Diffusion for a little bit. 3 times in the scene
Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:48 unnamed speaker Stable diffusion had some really good results, but it ran locally.
Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- ▶ 37:25 Anjney Midha Like, you, you are an athlete of the mind, and you perform at the highest levels, and to get there, whether you're, you know, Anastasius or Waylon at Berkeley, or you are Robin, who, with Black Forest and created Stable Diffusion, or if…
This Changes Retail Forever! | Who is Rohan Manthani? | Streamoid | Startup Stories Podcast
- ▶ 12:01 Rohan Manthani And like a lot of, uh, image generation tools, like let's say at that time it was like mid journey and, you know, stable diffusion, these were coming out.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 47:48 Jason Calacanis Remember Stable Diffusion built themselves on Getty, on Getty Images, and all of a sudden the Getty image watermark was in the output.
FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck
- ▶ 20:00 Anjney Midha The next Dario, the next, you know, uh, Guillaume at Mistral who created Lama, the next Robin who created Stable Diffusion.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 43:53 Balaji Srinivasan Um, just like Midjourney, you know, took, uh, took Dali's job, took Stable Diffusion's job.
Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
- ▶ 36:02 Harrison Chase Stable diffusion was the hot thing at the time.
State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
- ▶ 10:01 Sebastian Raschka There's of course the big field of diffusion models coming from image models, like, uh, not too long ago, maybe two or three years ago, there was like the big, uh, hype around stable diffusion, which was based on a research paper where…
Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
- ▶ 9:50 unnamed speaker Then all of a sudden, Stable Diffusion came out, and you can run it on your laptop, and that was my learning rate.
#2290 He’s building an AI media empire
- ▶ 10:26 Ricardo Vice Santos We used the, uh, stable diffusion. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:30 Ricardo Vice Santos I, I should correct something that, that Phil was, uh, was, he was playing with simple diffusion, right?
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books
- ▶ 3:08 unnamed speaker Because when, when, as you mentioned, I started the company in 2023, uh, this was, uh, around the times you started seeing stuff like Sable Diffusion come out, uh, you know, with the, with the, you know, in mid journey and so forth with…
⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
- ▶ 2:47 Jed Borovik You know, when Stable Diffusion came out, that to me was the first, like, Gen AI mode. 3 times in the scene
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:05 David Cahn I invested in Runway ML when Stable Diffusion hadn't even been born yet, and everyone was saying, oh, Transformers is the only way, and of course, Stable Diffusion introduced a new model architecture, and I invested in Hugging Face, which… 2 times in the scene
The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
- ▶ 0:35 Todd Jackson But when stable diffusion emerged, they made the tough call to pivot, walking away from paying customers.
- ▶ 6:17 Gorkem Yurtseven It was first DALI-II and then Stable Diffusion and then ChatGPT.
- ▶ 10:40 Gorkem Yurtseven There were, there, Stable Diffusion came before Lemma two. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:28 Todd Jackson So I, cause I remember in 2023, when you came to our office, the first time I had seen kind of this new idea, and I think it was on Stable Diffusion, STXL or something, where it was on your laptop, where you had this, you know, through the…
#2279 How are there so many AI agencies?
- ▶ 42:56 Rob Howard That was like a super cool business model when things, when this stuff first came out, like in the early mid journey stable diffusion days, but you've already see that, seen that get commoditized down to basically, you know, a rat race for…
A Technical History of Generative Media
- ▶ 4:51 unnamed speaker You know, you cannot, I think everybody knows stable diffusion, you know, and then you have maybe, like, the flux models, and then you have Black Forest Labs.
- ▶ 7:26 unnamed speaker You know, it's not a trivial decision, but obviously the right one at the time, I would say like a lot of people were hosting stable diffusion, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:04 unnamed speaker Like, if I just take stable diffusion, right, and I put it.
- ▶ 30:36 Gorkem Yurtseven And then people caught up within months and then stable diffusion was even maybe better or just as good as the lead, like a couple of months later and it was open source.
- ▶ 39:26 unnamed speaker Stability did not make money from stable diffusion.
- ▶ 50:54 Batuhan Taskaya The thing that we saw is, as the models get better, the, like Confu UI was a much bigger thing or like, you know, relatively much bigger thing in two years ago, like a year ago, when the models were like, you know, one of the biggest Confu…
Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:09 Jon Noronha ChatGPT hadn't happened yet, but there was the kind of the smell that AI could be that thing, and the place where I picked up that smell was actually from stable diffusion. 3 times in the scene
I quit my job to make $6M/year with AI apps
- ▶ 16:27 unnamed speaker Um, for the nerds, it predates Midjourney and Stable Diffusion and Dali, and was basically the first time that image generation went viral.
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 25:20 Guido Appenzeller Um, we have some in the stable diffusion ecosystem, like with like a file.
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 6:20 Burkay Gur This November, we're just sitting there trying to run Stable Diffusion one five. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:38 unnamed speaker And you combine these two, you get these like R optimization stats that we did for stable diffusion, you know, just much more efficient kernels for the workloads that we were targeting, and making sure this is like a pluggable system, so…
AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z
- ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker Latent Space itself was started because of Stable Diffusion, and then there was, like, yeah, improvements in, in image generators for a while.
- ▶ 1:41 Justine Moore Generative media, too, with Stable Diffusion in, I think it was, like, September, 20, twenty-two-ish, and it's grown so quickly since then, and Olivia and I talk about this all the time, because it used to be, um, that our friends in…
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 1:35:08 Jason Calacanis The big one is the New York Times versus OpenAI and Getty Images versus Stable Diffusion.
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:53 Michael Truell But then there was, uh, POM and stable diffusion, and then you start to get RLHF.
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 1:01:23 Michael Truell There's no stable diffusion.
1st-time founder grows AI headshot app from $0 to $10M ARR in 2 years—with no funding. | Wesley T... · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:39 Wesley Tian Um, one of them was, uh, called Stable Diffusion. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:02 Wesley Tian but yeah, it, it also, the other thing was, like, it only worked for, like, like, I think, like, um, like, like, certain ethnicities, like, because the model, like, say with Fusion was, like, trained, like, it wasn't trained on a very…
No Priors Ep. 109 | With Sarah and Elad
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 1:33:59 Dharmesh Shah So he's kind of gone deep on, uh, stable diffusion and the algorithms and things like that. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 19:15 Thomas Dohmke While at the extreme other end of the spectrum with web development and AI, you're going to be able, and you're, we're already there, like, you know, just look at a, a ten-year-old, give them, you know, um, a tool like, like Copilot or,…
- ▶ 40:47 Thomas Dohmke Um, you know, we saw that with image models like Stable Diffusion and now there's the Flux model from, uh, a startup actually not too far from, from my home base in Germany and in the Black Forest and Freiburg, uh, Black Forest Labs is…
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 1:23:16 Jason Calacanis Stable diffusion, when they use these open web, that is no excuse to use an open web crawler to avoid getting a license from the original owner of that.
Kamil Almost Went Broke Growing His AI Startup – An Acquisition Saved It
- ▶ 3:51 unnamed speaker So, uh, two main components, like the, the video generation is on top of open AI, but also different, uh, LLM models, but also, uh, stable diffusion, then flux, and like many various models, um, for
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 43:07 John Coogan Deep dream or something, dream fusion or something like that, and then someone implemented that paper, but it needed to run on like a cluster of GPUs to do it, so you would upload a bunch of photos of yourself, and then a bunch of photos…
How to build your AI App with Cursor, Firebase, Vercel (Full Tutorial)
- ▶ 27:44 Riley Brown Judging by the quality of this image, I think it's using, like, stable diffusion here.
No Priors Ep. 96 | With Modal CEO and Founder Erik Bernhardsson
- ▶ 3:13 Erik Bernhardsson And the, the, the real killer app, as it turns out, like we started this company pre-gen AI, but as it turns out that the, the main thing that really started driving all the traction was, was when stable diffusion came out.
- ▶ 12:41 Elad Gil You, you mentioned earlier that, um, one of the things that really caused early adoption of modal was, um, stable diffusion and sort of these, these open source models around image gen.
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 0:50 Shawn Wang I would say that when I first got started with Stable Diffusion, the star of the show was Automatic one-eleven, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:06 comfyanonymous (Comfy) That's the problem that that's the, the reason why stable diffusion actually became like popular, like, cause was because of the latent space.
- ▶ 10:08 Alessio Fanelli So stable diffusion obviously is the most known. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Shawn Wang And then like, there was like other methods like textual inversion that was popular at the early SD stage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:44 comfyanonymous (Comfy) So, but the hack that, uh, like you've, if you use stable diffusion 1.5, you've probably noticed, oh, it still works if I, if I use long prompts, prompts longer than 77 words. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:44 comfyanonymous (Comfy) Like stable effusion models, like at least the, the open source side, and like, it's going to be best way to run or models locally, but we will have a few, like a few things to, to make money from it, like, uh, cloud inference or like that…
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 48:07 Shawn Wang So there's no need for the stable diffusion or comfy UI workflow of like mask here and then like infill there and paint there and all that, all that stuff. 2 times in the scene
[Paper Club] Intro to Diffusion Models and OpenAI sCM: Simple, Stable, Scalable Consistency Models
- ▶ 1:53 RJ Honicky So it'd be useful to talk about what we're talking about here and, um, and in, in reference to, you know, sort of stable diffusion, um, and latent diffusion.
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 17:46 Erik Bernhardsson And then luckily all this like, you know, stable diffusion came out and like summer of 20, 22 or something like that.
Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- ▶ 18:58 Marc Andreessen Built into its exocortex and API out to an image generator, um, and then it started, it started, and then it started, it started generating text prompts for, you know, you know, like Dolly, you know, an image generator like that, or stable…
How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- ▶ 1:03:08 Jessica Hische So I did have fun creating custom lettering and then, um, trying to run it through stable diffusion to get stable diffusion to generate instances of my lettering in different styles. 2 times in the scene
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
- ▶ 6:50 Clement Delangue A stability AI, or like a runway, uh, that's been built on top of, of stable diffusion.
- ▶ 45:44 Clement Delangue I'm extremely excited about, about them, because I think we're gonna have the stable diffusion model for, uh, video generation soon. 2 times in the scene
The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- ▶ 5:07 Jeff Schmidt Um, and then I, I saw, I was just, you know, on the internet and I saw stable diffusion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 unnamed speaker Um, those, um, these stable diffusion models, I was like, yes, this is the future, right?
“The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI
- ▶ 7:12 Martin Casado We talked about stable diffusion.
5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
- ▶ 20:48 Cody Schneider And again, they're just using like versions of stable diffusion and training on it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:29 Greg Isenberg Mid-journey, Dali-to, Stable Diffusion, Focus, which is a free alternative.
Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- ▶ 27:47 Jeremy Howard So, you know, Jono Whittaker and I, you know, he worked on the stable diffusion course we did.
- ▶ 33:38 Jeremy Howard Like, in stable diffusion.
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:21 David Cahn Led the pre-stable diffusion round in Runway ML.
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
- ▶ 3:48 Danny Postma What you then can do is basically use AI, use stable diffusion, use mid journey, whatever the, the, the latest hype is right now.
Startup Acquisitions Stories Podcast With Victor Metelskiy, Founder of Sitekick.ai
- ▶ 5:07 Viktor Metelsky You know, it was something, um, and then it was, like, kind of going, growing slowly, but then, um, I think we also launched in a very good time, uh, because Sidekick was launched three, uh, ChatGPT and three stable diffusion and all the…
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:20 Cameron Adams For that one, that was based on, uh, stable diffusion, um, and we've since, like, iterated upon that a whole ton.
- ▶ 16:29 Harry Stebbings Infrastructure, like many are now are on OpenAI or on stable diffusion models or whatever that is.
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 32:24 Sam Schillace Now you just go ask Dolly or Stable Diffusion or whatever to generate that picture, and it happens pretty quickly.
How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
- ▶ 38:48 unnamed speaker I think people understand that with stable diffusion, you have these like LoRa patches for like 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 63 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Startup Funding Competition: Will VCs Invest in AI-Powered Fashion Models Disrupting E-Commerce?
- ▶ 6:01 Vita Mallela This is not just a wrapper off of like mid journey or stable diffusion. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 60 | With Playground AI Founder Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 1:09 Suhail Doshi And so, and I think then soon after that, I think Stable to Fusion came out around June or July of that same year.
- ▶ 3:10 Suhail Doshi And so at the time with, with, um, images, there was just sort of, I think there was Midjourney, there was OpenAI doing some DALI stuff, and then you saw sort of stable diffusion.
- ▶ 5:21 Suhail Doshi And a lot of people in this space just take stable diffusion and fine tune it or do other approaches like that.
AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
- ▶ 35:16 Morgan McGuire We took the stable diffusion algorithm, which is one of these image generators, and said it's a whole complicated neural network.
Hollywood Producers FREAK OUT over AI | Cris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway
- ▶ 0:25 Cris Valenzuela Table division is now like a backbone of a lot of
- ▶ 11:54 Matt Turck Uh, you know, the, the, the models and the, you know, what enabled the jump from gen one to gen two that you guys were the original co-creators of that various famous model called, uh, stable diffusion. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:00 Cris Valenzuela And so, stable diffusion, I think, and latent diffusion, which was the first model was, was a good set of ideas on how to get to good resolution of images in fast and reliable ways, yeah.
No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
- ▶ 12:48 Tuhin Srivastava They use Stable Diffusion image models to generate images.
Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
- ▶ 9:42 Alessio Fanelli And then once you get the final model, I would love to learn more about the size of these models because people are confused when stable diffusion is so small.
Google Gemini and AI bias
- ▶ 8:08 Toni Cowan-Brown And with the doctors one, the reality was that 39% of doctors in America are women, but in the stable diffusion results, it was only seven percent.
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 31:53 unnamed speaker And then you moved on to, so was it APIs next, or was it Stable Diffusion next? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:47 Ben Firshman This, like, I think we kind of set up, like, we saw there was this really interesting generative image world going on, so we kind of, you know, like, we were building the tools for that community already, really, and we knew Stable… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:58 unnamed speaker And it's like, you need to run like simple diffusion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:29 Ben Firshman Um, and like, like the stable diffusion that we run, for example, is compiled with AI template to make it super fast.
Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- ▶ 23:00 Shawn Wang And was that stable diffusion? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:08 Shawn Wang Well, maybe, um, so I'll stick to the stable diffusion thing, and then we'll move on to the other, uh, use cases of, sort of, for AI that you want to highlight.
Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
- ▶ 0:03 Robin Rombach What is Stable Diffusion?
- ▶ 1:25 Anjney Midha Robin, by the way, is also the co-inventor of Stable Diffusion, one of the most popular open source text-to-image models.
- ▶ 2:48 Anshin Mita Um, maybe we can start with just, uh, you know, for, for first time folks, um, a brief overview of, uh, your team, your research lab, um, and for listeners who are unfamiliar, maybe, you know, spend just a, a couple minutes talking about… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:48 Robin Rombach Now you, now you see what happens and the quality is even better than what we had, like with the first iteration of stable diffusion.
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