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Stable Audio 3

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Re: Stable Audio 3

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Post by waffletower »

echelon wrote: post #2

Stability.ai is still around? I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model. Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money. I wish for a world where Stability gave away the weights, but had a monetization loop to keep going. Imagine if we had OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability to counter Google. And imagine if the US had a…

Interesting that Google is the counter target in your mind. Anthropic is the only company mentioned that doesn't release any open weight models -- as a so-called "public benefit corporation" this is arguably a glaring lack.

Re: Stable Audio 3

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Post by echelon »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #10
echelon wrote: post #2

Stability.ai is still around? I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model. Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money. I wish for a world where Stability gave away the weights, but had a monetization loop to keep going. Imagine if we had OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability to counter Google. And imagine if the US had a…

There are plenty of companies with open weights.

I'd really love a list if you're offering.

Re: Stable Audio 3

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

echelon wrote: post #2

Stability.ai is still around? I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model. Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money. I wish for a world where Stability gave away the weights, but had a monetization loop to keep going. Imagine if we had OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability to counter Google. And imagine if the US had a…

Think it's more they died because they fumbled Stable Diffusion 2 and 3, also the seemingly the real image talent left to Blackforest Labs plenty of others are doing ok shipping open models.

Re: Stable Audio 3

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Post by evmaki »

Great release! It's awesome that they trained smaller models. With some effort I was able to get them running on my generative sampler/groovebox project this morning (shameless plug: https://engram.audio)

Also appreciate the attention to detail with licensing in the training set. This is an important sticking point – both commercially and ethically – for any product that integrates this type of model.

Re: Stable Audio 3

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Post by SequoiaHope »

infruset wrote: post #14

"Two early 20th century authors are talking while walking downtown Paris, occasionally noticing landmarks, while we hear horse hooves as well as a few cars" https://stableaudio.com/1/share/b4eeaa11-cf29-4e09-88cd-a058...

Wow that’s remarkably nonsensical.

Re: Stable Audio 3

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Post by halyconWays »

How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI, and something that can create super niche sound effects. This feels like Suno 1.0 levels of quality but maybe it can get there?

Re: Stable Audio 3

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Post by oezi »

nullbyte wrote: post #4

"We also support inpainting, enabling targeted audio editing and the continuation of short recordings." I didn't know there were models for that. Very cool!

PlayDiffusion is a notable one. But the state of the art is quickly evolving.
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