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Stable Diffusion

An open-source image generation model released by Stability AI.

Definition

An open-source image generation model released by Stability AI. It creates images from text descriptions using a latent diffusion process. Being open-source, it spawned a massive community of fine-tuned models, custom workflows (ComfyUI, Automatic1111), and extensions. A democratizing force in generative AI.

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