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Taskaya: Flux was the first enterprise-ready generative image model
“The team at Stability left to start Black Forest Labs, which released Flux models. And that was the first model to, you know, breach the barrier of commercially usable, you know, enterprise-ready grade models”
Automatic1111's inefficient SDXL implementation drove ComfyUI's viral user adoption
“The big, one point zero release happened, and wow, Confu UI was the only way a lot of people could actually run it on their computers, because it just, like, automatic was so, like, inefficient and bad that most people couldn't act, like, it just wouldn't work…”
Stability AI delayed Stable Cascade three months for red teaming
“And inside stability, actually that model was ready like three months before, but it got stuck in red teaming.”
Comfy: Stable Cascade would have been popular if SD3 hadn't stolen momentum
“If that model had released was Supposed to be released by the authors, then it would probably have gotten very popular since it's a step up from SDXL, but it got all of its momentum stolen by the SD three announcement.”
Lambert: DPO Has Become the Standard Release Expectation for Open-Source LLMs
“I think DPO releases are kind of becoming expected because Mistral released a DPO model as well. I think the slide after this is just like, there's a ton. It's like Intel releases DPO models, Stability releases DPO models. At some point, you just have to accep…”
EleutherAI and Stability AI Donated A100 Compute to Train RWKV
“So, so that's why AI and the rest stability, I believe also is involved, stepped up. And donated the A-One-Hundreds needed to train the basic models that RWKB had.”