{"id":145849,"date":"2022-09-07T15:23:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/startup-behind-ai-image-generator-stable-diffusion-is-in-talks-to-raise-at-a-valuation-up-to-1-billion"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:23:42","slug":"startup-behind-ai-image-generator-stable-diffusion-is-in-talks-to-raise-at-a-valuation-up-to-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/startup-behind-ai-image-generator-stable-diffusion-is-in-talks-to-raise-at-a-valuation-up-to-1-billion","title":{"rendered":"Startup Behind AI Image Generator Stable Diffusion Is In Talks To Raise At A Valuation Up To $1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQ2QtKcK2dA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyonc\u00e9 as if painted by Vincent van Gogh, a cyberpunk cityscape in the style of 18th century Japanese artist Hokusai and a complex alien world straight out of science fiction. Released to the public just two weeks ago, it\u2019s become one of several popular AI-powered text-to-image generators, including DALL-E 2, that have taken the internet by storm.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the company behind Stable Diffusion is in discussions to raise $100 million from investors, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Stability AI\u2019s open source text-to-image generator was released to the general public in late August. It has already accumulated massive community goodwill \u2014 and controversy over how it\u2019s been used by individuals on websites like 4chan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyonc\u00e9 as if painted by Vincent van Gogh, a cyberpunk cityscape in the style of 18th century Japanese artist Hokusai and a complex alien world straight out of science fiction. Released to the public just two weeks ago, it\u2019s become one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}