AI image-generator startup Stability AI looks for reshoot with new CEO and investor group
5 months, 4 weeks ago

AI image-generator startup Stability AI looks for reshoot with new CEO and investor group

Associated Press  

LONDON — The troubled artificial intelligence company behind image-generator Stable Diffusion is looking for a reshoot with a new CEO and a surge of investment from a group that includes Sean Parker, Facebook’s former president and Napster’s co-founder. The arrival of Stable Diffusion and its instantly created AI artwork and photorealistic images helped spark the public’s fascination with generative AI. Other investors include venture capital firms and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. He’s the former CEO of film production and visual effects company Weta Digital.

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Tech investor Sean Parker leads rescue of struggling AI startup
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Tech investor Sean Parker leads rescue of struggling AI startup

Live Mint  

Investors including ex-Facebook President Sean Parker are committing $80 million to take over Stability AI, an image-generation startup that took off with the artificial-intelligence boom but quickly ran into business problems. Despite its problems, Parker said the company’s core technology remained popular, which gave him faith it could become financially successful. “Stability has an enormous amount of influence and distribution …

Op-Ed: Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It’s starting now
2 years ago

Op-Ed: Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It’s starting now

LA Times  

Like many artists, I’ve looked in horror at generative image AI, a technology that is poised to eliminate humans from the field of illustration. The most popular generative art AI companies, Stability AI, Lensa AI, Midjourney and DALL-E, all trained their AI’s on massive data sets such as LAION-5B, which is run by the German nonprofit LAION. Type in a …

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