The Ledger

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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…”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 47:23 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
Assertion Supported
MultiDiffusion researchers published area conditioning a month after ComfyUI
“And then a month later, there was a paper that came out called multi diffusion, which was the same thing, but yeah, that's .”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 7:11 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 12:28 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
Assertion Supported
Comfy: Prompt weighting does not work on deep text encoders like T5-XXL
“This stops working the deeper your text encoder is. So, on T-Five XSL, it doesn't work at all, so.”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 23:06 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
Assertion Supported
Comfyanonymous built and released ComfyUI in just fifteen days
“So I started writing the code January one, 20, 23. And then I released the first version on GitHub January, 1620, 23.”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 4:58 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
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Comfy: Stable Cascade researchers left Stability AI right after its release
“They worked at stability for a bit and they left right after the Cascade release.”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 13:31 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
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