TY  - ELEC
TI  - Stable Diffusion public release (open weights, Aug 2022)
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/08//
PB  - Stability AI
AB  - The public release of Stable Diffusion on 22 August 2022 by Stability AI made a capable text-to-image model freely available as open weights for the first time, runnable on consumer-grade GPU hardware. This was a distinct access event from the latent diffusion architecture paper that preceded it: the release is what made open generative image production practically achievable outside industry labs. It directly enabled the downstream open ecosystem of interfaces, fine-tuning methods, and community platforms, and determined which generative AI tools became available in educational settings.
KW  - generative-ai
KW  - image-generation
KW  - ai-literacy
UR  - https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-public-release
LA  - en
ER  -