Stable Diffusion Public Release
FreeAnnouncement of the public release of Stable Diffusion, an AI-based image generation model trained on a broad internet scrape and licensed under a Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license. Stable Diffusion blog, 22 August, 2022.
About Stable Diffusion Public Release
Stable Diffusion is an open-source AI image generation model released by Stability AI in August 2022. It is trained on a broad internet scrape and released under the Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license, allowing commercial and non-commercial use. The release includes an AI-based safety classifier to filter unwanted outputs. The model requires approximately 6.9 GB of VRAM and is optimized for NVIDIA GPUs, with future support planned for AMD and Apple Silicon. The model weights (v1.4) and code are available on GitHub, and an optimized development notebook is provided for use with the HuggingFace diffusers library. A public demo and DreamStudio offer additional access.
Key Features
Pros & Cons
- Open-source and freely available for commercial and non-commercial use
- Includes built-in safety classifier to filter inappropriate outputs
- Strong community support and active development
- Integration with popular libraries like HuggingFace diffusers
- Multiple access points: direct weights, demo, and DreamStudio
- Requires high GPU memory (6.9 GB VRAM) for full operation
- Currently optimized only for NVIDIA GPUs; AMD and Apple Silicon support pending
- Model may produce biased or unsafe content without proper safeguards
- Large model size may be challenging for low-resource environments