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The Release of Stable Diffusion and Open-Source Democratization

    Stability AI, in collaboration with Runway and LMU Munich, open-sourced Stable Diffusion, a highly optimized latent text-to-image diffusion model. Because it was compressed tightly enough to run locally on consumer-grade NVIDIA graphics cards, it completely shattered big tech monopoly walls, unleashing a relentless torrent of decentralized visual synthesis across the global developer community.

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