Comment by jsheard
3 years ago
Isn't high-quality open image generation almost entirely dependent on Stability releasing their foundational models for free, at great expense to them?
That's not something you'll be able to rely on long-term, there won't always be a firehose of venture capital money to subsidise that kind of charity.
The cost of training them is going down, though. Given the existence of models like Pixart, I don’t think we’ll stay dependent on corporate charity for long.