Hello, and welcome to November’s special monthly edition of Eye on A.I. David Meyer here in Berlin, filling in for Jeremy.
Stable Diffusion is growing up so fast. Barely three months after Stability AI introduced the image generator to the world, version 2.0 is out. However, while this evolution of the system produces noticeably better-quality images, the startup’s choices are proving controversial.
First, the unalloyed good. Stable Diffusion 2.0 features new text-to-image models trained using a LAION-developed text encoder that provides a real step-up in quality. The resulting pictures are bigger—768x768 is now also available as a default resolution, and pictures can now be 2048x2048 or higher. Also of note: a new depth-guided model called depth2img that can infer very different new images from an input image.
