Stable Diffusion

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a16z Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: New AI models displace older AI models rather than humans
“Another one is AI doesn't take your job, AI takes the job of the previous AI. Claude took ChatGPT's job, right? Just like Midjourney, you know, took took Dali's job, took Stable Diffusion's job.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 43:46 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
MIXERGY Disclosure
Santos: Dream Stories used ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and LoRAs for consistency
“We use a number of things. We, at the time we used the chat to PT. We used the stable diffusion. I forget the first model we used. We used to do it. We used LORAS, which was we still do in some regards but LORAS is something that, you know, that you literally …”
Ricardo Vice Santos Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 10:22 #2290 He’s building an AI media empire
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
Early Stable Diffusion models primarily worked well on white people
“It only worked for, like, I think, like, certain ethnicities, like, because the model, like, say with Fusion was, like, trained, like, it wasn't trained on a very comprehensive data set. So maybe like only working on like white people. Right. And so like for e…”
Wesley Tian Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 23:02 1st-time founder grows AI headshot app from $0 to $10M ARR in 2 years—with no funding. | Wesley T... · PMF Show
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Bernhardsson: Stable Diffusion Release Drove Initial Traction for Modal
“The main thing that really started driving all the traction was when stable diffusion came out. And a bunch of people came to us and like, Hey, actually, this looks kind of cool. Like you have GPU access. It's very easy to, you know, you have to think about, y…”
Erik Bernhardsson Jan 9, 2025 ▶ 3:13 No Priors Ep. 96 | With Modal CEO and Founder Erik Bernhardsson
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Comfyanonymous had never written PyTorch before October 2022
“So basically October, 20, 22, just like I hadn't written a line of PyTorch before that. So it's completely new.”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 2:45 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
Comfyanonymous: Latent space efficiency drove Stable Diffusion's popularity
“That's the problem that that's the reason why stable diffusion actually became like popular, like, cause was because of the latent space.”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 8:06 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Delangue: Open-source video generation will match Stable Diffusion's impact
“We're gonna have the stable diffusion model for video generation soon. There are a lot of, like proprietary models in in video generation, but the first companies that are going to release an open source video Generation model. I think it is going to have a tr…”
Clement Delangue Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 45:44 The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
20VC Disclosure
Adams: Canva's initial text-to-image feature used Stable Diffusion
“For that one, that was based on stable diffusion and we've since, like, iterated upon that a whole ton.”
Cameron Adams Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 15:20 Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
THE PITCH Disclosure
Mallela: Flock AI builds proprietary algorithms on top of Stable Diffusion
“This is not just a wrapper off of like mid journey or stable diffusion. There's three parts to the tech. One is the actual model creation. The basis is stable diffusion, but we have our own algos on top of it for lighting aesthetics, demographics, posing.”
Vita Mallela May 1, 2024 ▶ 6:01 Startup Funding Competition: Will VCs Invest in AI-Powered Fashion Models Disrupting E-Commerce?
MAD Disclosure
Runway hired an engineer who fine-tuned Stable Diffusion on a 4090
“There's one engineer, for example he fine-tuned a version of stable efficient with, like, his own Forty-Night-y incredible work, and he figured out things that no researcher had figured out at the time. Of course, we hired him.”
Cris Valenzuela Mar 27, 2024 ▶ 13:32 Hollywood Producers FREAK OUT over AI | Cris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway
ANOTHER PODCAST Assertion Supported
Brown: Stable Diffusion generated 7% female doctors, compared to 39% in reality
“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.”
Toni Cowan-Brown Mar 3, 2024 ▶ 8:08 Google Gemini and AI bias
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Modal Had Little Traction Until the Release of Stable Diffusion
“That's, like, you know, a year and a half in, like, we barely had any users or any revenue, and, like, we were, like, well, maybe we should look at, like, some use case, trying to think of use cases, and that was around the time, same, same time Stable Edition…”
Erik Bernhardsson Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 23:10 Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
a16z Assertion Supported
Rombach: Stable Diffusion's core technique was developed during university research
“It's based on a technique that we developed while we were still at the university.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 3:23 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
a16z What-if
Blattman: AI image progress depended on open-sourcing Stable Diffusion
“Open sourcing, like a foundation model as stable diffusion initially, that led to a whole lot of research on these models, which was, yeah, it was in, in retrospect, extremely important to do this. I think otherwise we wouldn't have seen the improvements we sa…”
Andreas Blattman Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 9:26 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
a16z Assertion Supported
Rombach: Pre-trained video models learn 3D synthesis faster than image models
“We showed that it's actually like helpful to incorporate like this implicit three D knowledge that Knowledge that is captured in all of the videos into the model, and then the model can learn much quicker than if you start from the pure image model.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 23:07 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Doshi: LoRA Stable Diffusion Creator Simu Works With Playground AI
“The person that brought Laura's to stable diffusion actually works with us on, on some projects. His name is Simu”
Suhail Doshi Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 57:12 The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
NO PRIORS Assertion Supported
Gil: Diffusion Models Cost Millions to Train, Not Tens of Millions
“The original stable diffusion model supposedly was trained on like 600 K of GPU. Yeah. And these models cost in the millions to train, not tens of millions, at least initially.”
Elad Gil Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 13:33 No Priors Ep. 42 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Stable Diffusion and Midjourney likely generated more revenue than DALL-E 2
“Similarly, like, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney were all, like, pretty competitive with Dolly too, and actually probably making more money than Dolly too.”
Aravind Srinivas Nov 1, 2023 ▶ 6:41 Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
ML Researchers Optimize for Working Models Over Code Efficiency
“A lot of ML scientists, when they really build this stuff, the focus was more of like, always get it to work. It was never about getting it to work efficiently, or getting the code documented or organized.”
Eugene Cheah Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 1:42:07 RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
20VC Disclosure
Mostaque: Stability AI is the only company allowing image opt-outs from datasets
“We had hundreds of millions of images opt out of stable diffusion because we were the only company in the world To offer opt out of data sets.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 52:47 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: Stable Diffusion condenses 100,000 gigabytes into a 2GB file
“So we train the whole internet and like stable diffusion is a 100,000 gigabytes in a two gigabyte file.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 53:50 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
WTF Assertion Supported
Mayya: Stable Diffusion reproduction rate of training data is 1%
“And the reproduction rate for something like stable diffusion is one percent.”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 34:12 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
NO PRIORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Movie Studios Are Already Saving Millions by Implementing Stable Diffusion Locally
“We are working with multiple movie studios at the moment who are saving millions of dollars, just implementing stable diffusion by itself, let alone these other technologies.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 25:23 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Prediction Held up
Generative Image Models Will Soon Achieve 25 Frames Per Second
“With the additional breakthroughs that are coming through, it'll be 25 frame images a second. That's a hundred times speed up over a hundred times just from getting it out there and people interested in doing that.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 30:08 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
MAD Assertion Supported
Falcon: Stability AI trained Stable Diffusion using PyTorch Lightning
“Who's heard of stability, AI, and stable diffusion? That was trained using Lightning, right?”
William Falcon May 1, 2023 ▶ 7:51 Build and Deploy AI with Pytorch | Lightning AI Founder & CEO, William Falcon
ANOTHER PODCAST Assertion Supported
Evans: Stable Diffusion occasionally reproduces Getty Images watermarks
“There was a thing in stable diffusion where every now and then you'd see like something that like a Getty image is watermark appear on the image.”
Benedict Evans Apr 2, 2023 ▶ 2:08 AI, copyright and collective knowledge
ANOTHER PODCAST Prediction Held up
Evans: Running image generation models locally on phones is months or years away
“You know, we're going, quickly going to go to a model in which you can run stable diffusion on the journey yourself on your computer or on your phone. That's like months or years away. It's not decades away. That's close.”
Benedict Evans Apr 2, 2023 ▶ 27:22 AI, copyright and collective knowledge
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Parsons: Stable Diffusion used 12M fine-tuning images for aesthetic quality
“Stable diffusion, I think some five billion and then like a smaller set of like twelve million for the what does nice look like fine tuning that's happened on the top and how they've optimized it.”
Guy Parsons Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 19:25 Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
Evans: Generative AI processing demands will reignite the PC hardware upgrade cycle
“Will I be able to tell the difference running Keynote and a web browser and email and Excel? No, I will not be able to tell. Would I be able to tell running Stable Dive Fusion? Oh, suddenly I get that image back in 10 seconds instead of 20 seconds. Oh no, that…”
Benedict Evans Feb 12, 2023 ▶ 30:38 ChatGPT versus Google
ALL-IN Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2026
Calacanis predicts Stable Diffusion will pay $100 million to Getty Images
“They are going to pay a hundred million dollars or more to Getty Images for stealing their content and allowing it to be republished In a commercial setting.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 11, 2023 ▶ 1:28:08 E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
Evans: Generative AI creates novel combinations but lacks taste for quality
“With Stable Diffusion or GPT-III, It can only know which ones are good by reference to the existing corpus, and it can make something new, but it doesn't, a new original, a new and original and striking, but it wouldn't know that it was good without the human …”
Benedict Evans Dec 5, 2022 ▶ 28:49 ChatGPT and the Imagenet Moment
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Lütke: Open source cut Stable Diffusion generation time from 15s to 3s
“First versions on top of the line graphics cards, on your own machine you can execute this, right, this open source. You could make an image in 15 seconds. I think we're down to three. And, like, with no hardware changes”
Tobi Lütke Nov 15, 2022 ▶ 2:30:40 Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Partly supported
Puri: Emad Mostaque self-funded Stable Diffusion with $600K before reaching $1B
“He self-funded 600,000 and got these 20 engineers to come in and they created this thing that's like, you know, taken off and now, you know, valued over a billion dollars.”
Shaan Puri Oct 18, 2022 ▶ 1:12:26 9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)

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