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Stable Diffusion released publicly

Stability AI releases an image maker anyone can download, run and use to turn text into pictures.

In detail

Stability AI announced the public release of Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image model with weights on Hugging Face under the Creative ML OpenRAIL-M licence, plus a hosted option, DreamStudio. It followed an earlier researcher release.

Sources

  1. Stable Diffusion Public Release · Stability AI · Primary source
  2. Celebrating one year(ish) of Stable Diffusion · Stability AI · Primary source
  3. Stable Diffusion is a really big deal · Simon Willison's Weblog · Secondary source

Last checked 11 November 2026.