We will be the largest supporter of open source innovation via individuals, collaboratives and academia.
That is the Linux to our Red Hat as it were.
The Stable series of models will be the building blocks for turning the private data of the world into intelligence to help
Apr 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Proud of team after dealing with melted GPUs and more starting to release these (currently very alpha) models
Loads of details, inner workings & more coming soon now that this is out, should view this as a continuous process now vs a one and done, loads of complexity in LLMs
We have been honing down on our exact position in the ecosystem and it is this.
We will be the biggest supporter of the open ecosystem, academic, independent and otherwise.
The stable series of models is the equivalent of Red Hat, done deliberatively & fully open & auditable
Mar 29, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The argument private companies should hyperscale large models they themselves say could flip our society & kill us all because otherwise China or Russia will get there first is specious
If proponents actually believe that then large trainings should be nationalized by military
Fear of the other is no reason to do what is effectively gain of function research into models that exhibit crazy emergent properties and we have basically zero idea how to align.
Alignment is orthogonal to freedom as you must take the liberty of a entity more capable than you
The best analysis on this is (as usual) by Matt Levine at Bloomberg and I would agree with the below as the base case.
There will still be plenty of knock on effects but this is not the big systemic issue.. yet.
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
The bulk of the assets are not complex and the market is functioning well so expect a rapid resolution versus prior bank failures which still had depositors pretty much made whole.
The book will likely be bought by just a few entities also speeding things up absent takeover.
Aug 22, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Delighted to announce the public open source release of #StableDiffusion!
Proud of everyone involved in releasing this tech that is the first of a series of models to activate the creative potential of humanity
We are also delighted to announce the public beta release of #DreamStudio, our reference implementation to allow anyone to create anything.
The public API will be available here shortly to extend your creativity and enable new experiences.
First this whole field was catalysed by @OpenAI releasing CLIP publicly last year (!) which @RiversHaveWings, @advadnoun and others built on openai.com/blog/clip/
This allowed image generation to be guided, the output of which was surprising and led to a burst of developer and artist creativity from @ClaireSilver12 and many others.
Proud to say we supported & funded most of the open tools in this space.
It is now good enough, fast enough
Mar 12, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Hi all, I am back and I know a lot of you are scared.
This is a thread on why this will end up ok.
I say this having warned what would happen/get bad at the end of January saying it would go exponential over the period it did (
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1. As humans our greatest ability is to come together to form something @waitbutwhy calls the "Human Colossus".
The Colossus can split the atom or reach the stars.
Little versions of it can also do big things, some good, some bad.
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