There is 100% a hit piece effort against stability.
It is extremely unusual, for multiple media outlets to repeatedly write an article against a small startup, that's completely unrelated to customer harm or say employee abuse. Wow, the founder fudged his VC presentations, wow, the masters degree wasn't legit, like WHO CARES?
The only missing piece was the motivation, who exactly holds such a grudge against Emad really?
Basically, this "Cyrus Hodes" guy, thought stability was worthless before StableDiffusion, sold out his stake for $100.
That is a fair assessment, because Stability before SD was completely aimless and going nowhere, and definitely not worth anything.
However, Emad spotted an incredible bet, and obtained the naming rights to a latent diffusion model for cheap. And the titanic success of SD instantly propelled Stability to a serious player on the AI world. Hence the 100 mil raise afterwards.
Needless to say, this Cyrus guy is extremely mad. If you check his credentials, he's not a technical guy, but actually extremely political, full of adviser roles to OECD or governmental organizations.
Therefore its unsurprising that he:
1. Is able to organize the multi-month media effort in secret, to give journalists the angle to write against Stability.
2. Is ultra bitter about being kicked out of stability (But I doubt he would have been a good leader anyways at Stability, since AI transitioned from being a hype-based industry to a real product driven one after SD.)
In any case, Stability has had some hiccups, but they appear to be recovering very well in the recent months. They've had 3 separate product launches.
1. SDXL, the first successor to SD that finally has community acceptance (So the actual useful fine-tunes and ecosystems can grow around it)
2. Stablebeluga, a fast-follower high quality fine-tune for Llama2 with decent acceptance
3. Stablecode, a open source coding-specific LLM
It shows their R&D team is once again working, and gaining the confidence of the community again, after the two disasters that was SD2.0 and stableLM
I always see this line of reasoning online from hype consumers. The eternal victim complex. Its not fair that negative articles are being written about this humble startup/video-game merchant/crypto exchange - must be a coordinated hit piece!
And then it devolves into worshipping the founder/priest/oracle. Usually by making claims of their supposed genius and foresight. Blah so boring. You can see it all on display in this comment. Emad the genius, yet he lies about trivial things. Yeah who cares that he lied about his master's degree? I mean I agree, who gives a shit about a master's degree. But then why feel the need to lie about it? You don't think that reflects on his character?
> Needless to say, this Cyrus guy is extremely mad. If you check his credentials, he's not a technical guy, but actually extremely political, full of adviser roles to OECD or governmental organizations. Therefore its unsurprising that he:
> 1. Is able to organize the multi-month media effort in secret, to give journalists the angle to write against Stability.
This is cryptocurrency levels of conspiracy theory. Do you have any evidence? Or do you have an existing track record to back up these claims at least?
> Wow, the founder fudged his VC presentations, wow, the masters degree wasn't legit, like WHO CARES
I gotta stop coming here. I just have to. Board the hype train and proudly ignore the red flags.
Choo choo, or something. I swear to God reading the comments here, on average, is making me dumber lately.
Can we fork the community? The MBA, PM, hype beast clout chasers can go to one side, and the folks pushing to GH 10 times a day and actually building stuff can have another?
It is extremely unusual, for multiple media outlets to repeatedly write an article against a small startup, that's completely unrelated to customer harm or say employee abuse. Wow, the founder fudged his VC presentations, wow, the masters degree wasn't legit, like WHO CARES?
The only missing piece was the motivation, who exactly holds such a grudge against Emad really?
Then the missing piece finally came to light: https://www.reuters.com/technology/stability-ai-is-sued-by-c...
Basically, this "Cyrus Hodes" guy, thought stability was worthless before StableDiffusion, sold out his stake for $100. That is a fair assessment, because Stability before SD was completely aimless and going nowhere, and definitely not worth anything.
However, Emad spotted an incredible bet, and obtained the naming rights to a latent diffusion model for cheap. And the titanic success of SD instantly propelled Stability to a serious player on the AI world. Hence the 100 mil raise afterwards.
Needless to say, this Cyrus guy is extremely mad. If you check his credentials, he's not a technical guy, but actually extremely political, full of adviser roles to OECD or governmental organizations. Therefore its unsurprising that he:
1. Is able to organize the multi-month media effort in secret, to give journalists the angle to write against Stability.
2. Is ultra bitter about being kicked out of stability (But I doubt he would have been a good leader anyways at Stability, since AI transitioned from being a hype-based industry to a real product driven one after SD.)
In any case, Stability has had some hiccups, but they appear to be recovering very well in the recent months. They've had 3 separate product launches.
1. SDXL, the first successor to SD that finally has community acceptance (So the actual useful fine-tunes and ecosystems can grow around it)
2. Stablebeluga, a fast-follower high quality fine-tune for Llama2 with decent acceptance
3. Stablecode, a open source coding-specific LLM
It shows their R&D team is once again working, and gaining the confidence of the community again, after the two disasters that was SD2.0 and stableLM