# Stability AI Stability AI is a generative AI company founded in 2019 (formally launched in 2020) by Emad Mostaque and headquartered in London. The company rose to prominence in August 2022 with the public release of [[Stable Diffusion]], an open-weight text-to-image [[Diffusion Models|diffusion model]] that dramatically lowered the barrier to running high-quality image generation locally. Since then, Stability has expanded well beyond images, releasing open-weight models across multiple modalities and positioning itself as a counterweight to closed, API-only generative AI providers. Main features and contributions: - Stable Diffusion family — SD 1.x, SD 2.x, SDXL, SDXL Turbo, SD3 / SD3.5 (text-to-image) - Stable Video Diffusion (SVD) and Stable Video (image/text-to-video) - Stable Audio — text-to-music and text-to-audio generation - Stable LM — open-weight [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] - Stable Code — code-specialized LLMs - Open weights published on Hugging Face, often under permissive or "community" licenses - Ecosystem of derivative tools (ComfyUI, Automatic1111, Forge, InvokeAI) built on top of their models Notable context: - Emad Mostaque stepped down as CEO in March 2024 amid financial and governance concerns - Licensing shifted toward a more restrictive "Stability AI Community License" for recent releases (free for research and small-commercial, paid for larger commercial use) - Central player in ongoing debates around [[Generative AI Risks|generative AI risks]], training data provenance, and copyright Common uses: - Running [[AI image generation models|image generation]] locally or self-hosted - Fine-tuning custom checkpoints and [[AI Fine-Tuning|LoRAs]] for specific styles or subjects - Building generative pipelines in creative, design, and product workflows - Research baseline for diffusion and multimodal generation ## References - Official Website: https://stability.ai/ - Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai - GitHub: https://github.com/Stability-AI - X / Twitter: https://x.com/StabilityAI ## Related - [[Stable Diffusion]] - [[Diffusion Models]] - [[AI image generation models]] - [[Generative AI (Gen AI)]] - [[AI Open Weight Models]] - [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] - [[Open Source]]