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Stable Diffusion is a deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022.

Key Note: Stable Diffusion is primarily used to generate detailed images conditioned on text descriptions, though it can also be applied to other tasks such as inpainting, outpainting, and generating image-to-image translations guided by a text prompt.

Stable Diffusion is a latent diffusion model, a kind of deep generative neural network developed by the CompVis group at LMU Munich.[4] The model has been released by a collaboration of Stability AI, CompVis LMU, and Runway with support from EleutherAI and LAION.[5][1][6] In October 2022, Stability AI raised US$101 million in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue Management.[7]

Stable Diffusion's code and model weights have been released publicly,[8] and it can run on most consumer hardware equipped with a modest GPU with at least 8 GB VRAM. This marked a departure from previous proprietary text-to-image models such as DALL-E and Midjourney which were accessible only via cloud services.[9][10]