{"id":145963,"date":"2022-09-09T01:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/training-cost-for-stable-diffusion-was-just-600000-and-that-is-a-good-sign-for-ai-progress"},"modified":"2022-09-09T01:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:22:48","slug":"training-cost-for-stable-diffusion-was-just-600000-and-that-is-a-good-sign-for-ai-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/training-cost-for-stable-diffusion-was-just-600000-and-that-is-a-good-sign-for-ai-progress","title":{"rendered":"Training cost for Stable Diffusion was just $600,000 and that is a good sign for AI progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/training-cost-for-stable-diffusion-was-just-600000-and-that-is-a-good-sign-for-ai-progress2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stable Diffusion is a powerful open-source image AI that competes with OpenAI\u2019s DALL-E 2. The AI training was probably rather cheap in comparison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested can <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/dall-e-2-open-source-alternative-stable-diffusion-is-now-available\/\">download the model of the open-source image AI Stable Diffusion<\/a> for free from Github and run it locally on a compatible graphics card. This must be reasonably powerful (at least 5.1 GB VRAM), but you don\u2019t need a high-end computer.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the local, free version, the <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/open-source-rival-for-openais-dall-e-runs-on-your-graphics-card\/\">Stable Diffusion team also offers access via a web interface<\/a>. For about $12, you get roughly 1,000 image prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stable Diffusion is a powerful open-source image AI that competes with OpenAI\u2019s DALL-E 2. The AI training was probably rather cheap in comparison. Anyone interested can download the model of the open-source image AI Stable Diffusion for free from Github and run it locally on a compatible graphics card. This must be reasonably powerful (at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145963","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}