Meanwhile, Inflection AI has announced that its founding CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, and co-founder Karén Simonyan, along with most of its employees, are joining Microsoft Corp. The company will continue to operate under the leadership of former Mozilla Foundation executive Sean White, focusing on developing custom generative AI models for enterprises. It also plans to make its recently introduced Inflection-2.5 LLM available through Azure and other cloud platforms.
Key takeaways:
- Three members of Stability AI Ltd.’s research team, including Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann and Dominik Lorenz, have reportedly left the company. They were part of the original team that developed Stable Diffusion, an open-source image generation model.
- Stability AI, which launched in 2019, has raised more than $100 million from investors and is known for its Stable Diffusion series of image generation models.
- The latest edition of Stable Diffusion, Stable Diffusion 3, debuted in February and can generate higher-quality images than its predecessor and is better at understanding complex prompts.
- Despite losing several engineering executives over the past year, Stability AI has managed to develop multiple new AI algorithms, including a second new AI model, Stable Video 3D, which can generate brief clips based on an image provided by the user.