Stability AI just released three new ControlNet models for Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large: Blur, Canny, and Depth. These models allow creators to handle upscaling up to 16K, line art structure, and depth map guidance with high precision. They are free for non-commercial use and commercial use under $1M in annual revenue, supported by Comfy UI.
James Cameron just joined Stability AI's board of directors, throwing his weight behind generative filmmaking. The legendary director behind Avatar and Terminator called the convergence of generative AI and CGI the next wave of storytelling. His arrival gives Stability AI a massive creative ally as it tries to bridge open-source models with Hollywood.
LAION just re-released its flagship training dataset as Re-LAION-5B, claiming it has thoroughly scrubbed suspected child sexual abuse material. Following recommendations from watchdogs and a Stanford investigation, the group removed 2,236 flagged links and urged researchers to ditch the older LAION-5B copies.
Stability AI just appointed entertainment technology veteran Hanno Basse as its new Chief Technology Officer. Basse brings over 30 years of deep industry experience, previously serving as CTO at Digital Domain, Microsoft Azure Media and Entertainment, and 20th Century Fox. The hire signals Stability AI is doubling down on integrating generative AI directly into professional studio production workflows.
A federal judge just allowed a major copyright and trademark lawsuit by artists against Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway to move forward. The ruling gives artists the green light to pursue claims over Midjourney's 4,700-artist style list and Stability's alleged induced infringement. Why it matters: The case now enters the discovery phase, meaning AI image makers may soon be forced to open up their closely guarded training black boxes.
Stability AI just launched Stable Fast 3D, a rapid reconstruction model that creates complete 3D assets from a single image in just 0.5 seconds. Built on TripoSR, it slashes inference time from SV3D's 10 minutes down to sub-second speeds while generating meshes and material parameters. Weights and code are open-sourced on Hugging Face and GitHub under a community license allowing commercial use for sub-$1M revenue teams.
Stability AI just launched Stable Video 4D, an open-source model that turns a single video into eight novel-view videos. It generates 5 frames across 8 camera perspectives in about 40 seconds, streamlining dynamic 3D optimization for game development and video editing. The weights are live on Hugging Face.
Stability AI just dropped the research paper behind Stable Audio Open, detailing the architecture of its open-weights text-to-audio model. Trained on nearly 500,000 Creative Commons recordings, the model synthesizes up to 47 seconds of 44.1kHz stereo sound and foley effects directly on consumer GPUs. The weights are live on Hugging Face for non-commercial use and eligible small businesses.
Stability AI just updated its Stable Assistant chatbot with two major creative tools: Search & Replace and music generation. Users can now seamlessly swap specific objects inside uploaded images, or generate full-length instrumental tracks up to three minutes long via Stable Audio 2.0 at 44.1 kHz stereo. It essentially turns the assistant into an all-in-one multimodal workstation, backed by a 3-day free trial.
Stability AI just revamped its Community License following heavy community pushback over Stable Diffusion 3. Under the revised terms, individual creators and small businesses making less than $1M in annual revenue can now use SD3 Medium and other models commercially for free, with zero output caps. The team also admitted SD3 Medium fell short on quality and promised an update soon.
Stability AI just appointed former Weta Digital CEO Prem Akkaraju as its new chief executive and secured fresh funding led by Sean Parker, who will become board chairman. The cash injection offers a much-needed lifeline after reports revealed the startup lost over $30 million in Q1 and owes nearly $100 million to cloud providers.
Stability AI just launched Stable Diffusion 3 and its Turbo version on its Developer Platform API, partnering with Fireworks AI for enterprise-grade availability. Powered by the new MMDiT architecture, the model rivals DALL-E 3 and Midjourney v6 in typography and prompt adherence. Model weights will also be available soon for member self-hosting.
Stability AI just launched Stable LM 2 12B, a multilingual model trained on 2 trillion tokens across seven European languages. Available in both base and instruction-tuned flavors, it is built to handle function calling and RAG workflows on standard hardware. The compact 1.6B model also got an upgrade with better conversation skills and tool use.
Over 200 prominent musicians, including Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, and Katy Perry, just signed an open letter demanding tech developers stop using their work without permission to train AI music models. The coalition warned that unchecked generative AI threatens artist likenesses and risks devastating the livelihoods of working songwriters.
Stability AI just rolled out Stable Code Instruct 3B, an instruction-tuned coding LLM that beats CodeLlama 7B despite having less than half the parameters. It handles natural language queries, math, and code generation across popular languages. Why it matters: Developers can run powerful coding assistants on consumer-grade hardware, with weights ready to download on Hugging Face.
Emad Mostaque just resigned as CEO and board member of Stability AI to pursue decentralized AI. The startup named COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte as interim co-CEOs while hunting for a permanent leader. Why it matters: A sudden leadership shakeup leaves the marquee open-source AI lab looking for direction and stability.
Stability AI just lost the core research team behind Stable Diffusion, including lead researcher Robin Rombach and two key co-authors. The high-profile departures follow a string of executive exits, mounting compute and payroll debts, and stalled fundraising efforts, putting the open-source darling under immense survival pressure.
Stability AI just released Stable Video 3D (SV3D), adapting its video diffusion tech to turn a single object image into consistent multi-view orbital videos and 3D meshes. It comes in two flavors—one for generic orbits and another supporting custom camera paths. Weights are open on Hugging Face for non-commercial use, while commercial deployment requires a membership.
Midjourney just slapped an indefinite ban on all Stability AI employees after bot-like scraping brought its service down for 24 hours. The rival was allegedly trying to harvest prompt-image pairs to train its own models. Now, Midjourney is enforcing a nuclear policy: crash our servers with aggressive automation, and your entire company gets banned.
Stability AI and Tripo AI just released TripoSR, an open-source model that transforms a single 2D image into a textured 3D mesh in under half a second. It runs fast even without a dedicated GPU, and both the code and weights are completely free for commercial use under an MIT license.
