OpenAI's DALL-E 2 is getting free competition. Behind it is an AI open-source movement and the startup Stability AI.

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Stable Diffusion is already expected to run on a single graphics card with 5.1 gigabytes of VRAM – bringing AI technology to the edge that until now has only been available through cloud services. The code and a trained model will be published as open source. There will be a hosted version with a web interface August 7, 2022 Stable diffusion. The model is also supposed to running on MacBooks with Apple's M1 chip.

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