“Won” what exactly? I have no issues running stable diffusion locally.

Since Llama3.3 came out it is my first stop for coding questions, and I’m only using closed models when llama3.3 has trouble.

I think it’s fairly clear that between open weights and LLMs plateauing, the game will be who can build what on top of largely equivalent base models.

The quality for SD is no where near the clear leaders.

> The quality for SD is no where near the clear leaders.

It absolutely is. Moreover, the tools built on top of SD (and now Flux) are superior to any commercial vertical.

The second-place companies and research labs will continue to release their models as open source, which will cause further atrophy to the value of building a foundation model. Value will accrue in the product, as has always been the case.

SD will also generate what I tell it, unlike the corporate models that have all kinds of “safeguards”.

You must be stuck at SDXL for posting something absolutely and verifiably false as the sentence above.