Today marks the launch of Stable Cascade in its research preview. This innovative text to image model introduces an interesting three-stage approach, setting new benchmarks for quality, flexibility, fine-tuning, and efficiency with a focus on further eliminating hardware barriers.
“Stable Cascade is exceptionally easy to train and finetune on consumer hardware thanks to its three-stage approach.”
They’re VC funded, so they need to start getting a ROI. Very disappointing license but it will also massively slow down its spread.