{"id":8511,"date":"2024-04-19T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=8511"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:12:15","slug":"stability-ai%e5%ae%a3%e5%b8%83%e8%a3%81%e5%91%9820%e4%ba%ba%ef%bc%8c%e7%ba%a6%e5%8d%a0%e5%91%98%e5%b7%a5%e6%80%bb%e6%95%b0%e7%9a%8410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/8511.html","title":{"rendered":"Stability AI announces layoffs of 20 employees, accounting for approximately 101% of total employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK AI Companies<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/stability\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Stability] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Stability<\/a> AI Announcement<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%a3%81%e5%91%98\" title=\"[See articles with [retrenchment] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Layoffs<\/a>20 people, accounting for about 10% of its total employees. The day before, the company had just announced the expansion of the use of its flagship model.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs come after a turbulent few weeks following the departure of its founding CEO. According to CNBC, the UK-based AI company, which runs a steadily proliferating text-to-image model, said the layoffs are part of the company\u2019s \u201cstrategic plan to reduce our cost base, strengthen alignment with our investors and partners, and enable the team to continue to develop and release innovative products.\u201d The company said in a memo to employees that the layoffs were not yet specified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content__img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8512\" title=\"202304261533109492_0-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/202304261533109492_0-1.jpg\" alt=\"202304261533109492_0-1\" width=\"880\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source Note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is authorized by Midjourney<\/p>\n<p>Stability AI has gone through a turbulent period in recent months, with the departure of several prominent researchers and its founding CEO Emad Mostaque. Mostaque resigned from his position and the company&#039;s board in March, saying he wanted to &quot;pursue decentralized AI.&quot; Stability AI&#039;s layoffs mark the first time since the rise of generative AI.<span class=\"spamTxt\">The first<\/span>Major AI-based model layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The company recently released the next generation of its flagship model, Stable Diffusion, and announced API access for Stable Diffusion 3. It also announced a new version of its Stable Audio text-to-audio AI model this month.<\/p>\n<p>However, even as the company continues to release AI models, it has also become the subject of lawsuits for allegedly using copyrighted material to train its models. Last year, Getty Images sued Stability AI. The case will soon go to trial in the UK.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK AI firm Stability AI has announced 20 layoffs, representing around 10% of its workforce, just a day after announcing an expansion in the use of its flagship model. The layoff decision comes after weeks of turmoil following the departure of its founding CEO. According to CNBC, the U.K.-based AI company runs a stable diffusion text-to-image model, and the layoff decision is part of the company's \"strategic plan to reduce our cost base, strengthen support with our investors and partners, and enable the team to continue to develop and release innovative products.\" In a memo to employees, the company said the departments where the layoffs will take place have not yet been specified. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image license provider Midjourne<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[388,2302],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-8511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-stability","tag-2302"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}