An illustrated guide showing how Stable Diffusion generates images from text using a CLIP-based text encoder, an image information creator, and an image decoder (Jay Alammar)

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Meta AI and Papers with Code unveil Galactica, an open source LLM for generating literature reviews, wiki articles, lecture notes, and more on scientific topics  —  Midjourney / DALL-E 2 prompted by THE DECODER  —  Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER.

Bill Cusick / Stability.Ai:
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can now generate images with default resolution of 512×512 and 768×768, and can upscale images to 2048×2048  —  It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2.  —  The original Stable Diffusion V1 led …

Kenrick Cai / Forbes:
Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation  —  With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyoncé as if painted by Vincent van Gogh …

James Vincent / The Verge:
Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists’ styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data  —  Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases Point-E, an open-source ML system that generates and displays 3D objects from a text prompt in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU  —  The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators.  This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft plans to integrate DALL-E 2 with the newly announced Microsoft Designer app and Image Creator tool in Bing and Microsoft Edge  —  Microsoft is making a major investment in DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s AI-powered system that generates images from text, by bringing it to first-party apps and services.