Stable Audio 3
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4 hours ago
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| arxiv.org
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svantana
2 hours ago
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Blog post: https://stability.ai/news-updates/meet-stable-audio-3-the-mo...

A bit bizarre that there's not a single audio example in that post. But the model is available on their gen-AI service: https://stableaudio.com/

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hununu
1 hour ago
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Are the released models models useful? I'm worried about their description of the output. I haven't had a chance to try them yet and unable to run them on hugging face at the moment. The https://stableaudio.com/ sample on their website could be used as sample materials for song making but definitely lacking frequency range expected today as a final product.
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nullbyte
2 hours ago
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"We also support inpainting, enabling targeted audio editing and the continuation of short recordings."

I didn't know there were models for that. Very cool!

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rafadc
1 hour ago
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It is insanely fast. Less than 2 seconds for 120 seconds of audio in my 3090.

It sounds too much like general midi. It is better for electronica than for any other genre.

Impressive nonetheless

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vessenes
1 hour ago
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This is a very small item, but I found it interesting that the paper does not credit Stability AI in the author bylines.
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0gs
1 hour ago
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hmm stableaudio.com seems to be dead tho? at least it is for me
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echelon
2 hours ago
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Stability.ai is still around?

I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model.

Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money.

I wish for a world where Stability gave away the weights, but had a monetization loop to keep going. Imagine if we had OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability to counter Google. And imagine if the US had a sizable open weights company.

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whywhywhywhy
7 minutes ago
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Think it's more they died because they fumbled Stable Diffusion 2 and 3, also the seemingly the real image talent left to Blackforest Labs plenty of others are doing ok shipping open models.
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victorbjorklund
58 minutes ago
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There are plenty of companies with open weights.
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echelon
43 minutes ago
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I'd really love a list if you're offering.
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waffletower
45 minutes ago
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Interesting that Google is the counter target in your mind. Anthropic is the only company mentioned that doesn't release any open weight models -- as a so-called "public benefit corporation" this is arguably a glaring lack.
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refulgentis
1 hour ago
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I wonder if we just discovered that we’re living in that world. :)

(To fill in some gaps: they’ve consistently had a revenue model, first subscriptions to use their models commercially then fixed-floor cost per generation with revenue sharing with them)

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