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.”
Awesome. People were worried Stability will focus on enterprise AI after SDXL and completely forget making consumer AI, but this is definitely not the case.
This model is being released under a non-commercial license that permits non-commercial use only.
I suppose it's not allowed them. That kind of sucks, it is pretty convenient to just use a replicate.com machine and use a large image model kinda instantly. Or spin up your own machine for a while if you need lots of images without a potential cold-start or slow usage on shared machines
I wonder why they chose this license, because the common SD license basically lets you do whatever you want