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Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Post by daveguy »

wongarsu wrote: post #26
alexvitkov wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Should be fine" doesn't cut it if you want to base your business on it and have no alternatives.

Every Android or iOS App is a "should be fine" type of deal. So are lots of other things. If you are really worried I'm sure there's a sales person willing to take your call right now. It's not ideal, but honestly not that exceptional. And if push comes to shove you do have alternatives, you just need to sacrifice a bit of quality, maybe deployment complexity, and tune your prompts differently for one of the other mo…

Do android and iOS stores have undisclosed fee structures for high revenue or high usage apps? I was under the impression that the fees were at least transparent, even if they do represent monopolistic rent seeking.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Post by astrange »

panki27 wrote: post #7

"In keeping with our commitment to open generative AI, we aim to make the model weights available for self-hosting with a Stability AI Membership in the near future." Does this mean that SD3 will not be available from Huggingface etc.?

Emad said it will be the same as before on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1c6awnl/co...

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Post by etaioinshrdlu »

MyFirstSass wrote: post #2

- Models will be released - Free to use for non commercial projects - 20$/m subscription needed if project has less than $1m annual revenue or - Undisclosed "Enterprise" subscription needed for projects larger than above To me the $240/y sounds pretty awesome for a smaller commercial project, and i like they've set the threshold pretty high up. But still don't like "undisclosed" black box enterprise pricing though wh…

The enterprise subscription costs $120k/year. You might be able to haggle it down.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Post by dheera »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #17
MyFirstSass wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A tangent but i believe all pricing should public information by law above some threshold to battle corruption, nepotism, cartel making and monopolies. I've seen too many governments and even medium sized companies paying absurd amounts to some shitty locked in cloud platform with lots of better alternatives, because someone got kickbacks, gifts, vacations or a seat on some board, and everyone should be more enraged.…

Unless there's absolutely no alternative, and it's something I desperately need, I basically won't buy anything that says "call for pricing" or some such, because I interpret that as "call so one of our trained liars (i.e., salesmen) can figure out how hard we can screw you". In many cases I'd even pay a premium to avoid talking to one of those people.

Yeah on multiple occasions I've e-mailed said businesses and said "This other business has it for $X. Beat that and I'll buy yours. I don't have time for a call."

I want products at my doorstep in exchange for $. I don't want a goddamn coffee chat.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Post by dheera »

MyFirstSass wrote: post #15
Lacerda69 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What SaaS company discloses their Enterprise prices?

A tangent but i believe all pricing should public information by law above some threshold to battle corruption, nepotism, cartel making and monopolies. I've seen too many governments and even medium sized companies paying absurd amounts to some shitty locked in cloud platform with lots of better alternatives, because someone got kickbacks, gifts, vacations or a seat on some board, and everyone should be more enraged.…

I fully agree, or at the VERY LEAST pricing information should be disclosable and any NDA around pricing should be automatically void and unenforceable.

How the hell do I know they're not giving me higher prices due to racial profiling or some other unethical reason?

That would allow, at least, some sort of website or chrome plugin to exist that fetches and displays previously-submitted pricing information as an overlay next to any idiotic "call for pricing" statements.

That is the way I would run a country if I was its president.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Post by ethbr1 »

daveguy wrote: post #31
wongarsu wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every Android or iOS App is a "should be fine" type of deal. So are lots of other things. If you are really worried I'm sure there's a sales person willing to take your call right now. It's not ideal, but honestly not that exceptional. And if push comes to shove you do have alternatives, you just need to sacrifice a bit of quality, maybe deployment complexity, and tune your prompts differently for one of the other mo…

Do android and iOS stores have undisclosed fee structures for high revenue or high usage apps? I was under the impression that the fees were at least transparent, even if they do represent monopolistic rent seeking.

There were several instances that came out in recent court cases of the app stores negotiating custom deals with strategically-important apps.

E.g. Spotify: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-...

So typical "above this negotiating power, let's talk terms", and everybody smaller has to pay list price.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Post by Hoasi »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #18
airstrike wrote: post #9

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I didn't think those were bad at all

That woman at the top (at least I assume it's supposed to be a woman) should be wearing a beauty pageant sash reading "Ms Uncanny Valley of 2024". Creepy AF, IMO. Agreed that some of the others aren't so bad, however the bar for a convincing swamp creature is a lot lower than for a convincing human being. If breasts come out looking like that, I'd be taking a hard look at my training data.

The whole picture reeks of bad taste. The hands are particularly terrible. Total fail! But then again, maybe it's due to a poor prompt.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Post by emadm »

jsheard wrote: post #5
poniko wrote: post #4

Big jump in price per generation and now is in line with dall3. So is the model 20-30 times more gpu intense or did they decide to finally make money?

After that report a few weeks ago saying they literally can't afford to pay their AWS bills I would guess it's the latter. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2024/03/29/how-stabi... > By October 2023, Stability would have less than $4 million left in the bank [...] Stability was "underpaying AWS bills for July (by $1M)" and "not planning to pay AWS at the end of October for August usage ($7M)." Then there were t…

Made that 4m last a long time eh ^_^
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