1 week of Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion was released 1 week ago. In just one week, a Cambrian explosion of services, adaptations, user interfaces and integrations emerged. I've curated 23+ of them
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Monday (22/08) - release date
Stable Diffusion official release
Stable Diffusion was released officially on Monday 22/09. The weights were released so they can be used with the diffusers library or CompVis' code. The official code was capable of doing text2image and image2image.
DreamStudio Beta hosted tool / user interface
DreamStudio Beta, Stability's "official" service for using the model in a freemium fashion. One can use the API via the stability-sdk as well.
Hugging Face Spaces open source / hosted tool / user interface
Hugging Face Spaces, a free and simple way to demo/use the model.
Diffusers official demo Colab open source / notebook
A detailed colab notebook on how to use Stable Diffusion with the diffusers library
Gradio UI for Stable Diffusion open source / notebook / user interface
A Gradio UI running on Colab for Stable Diffusion by ahsen.khaliq
Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon hardware support
An M1 compatible fork of the CompVis Stable Diffusion repo was released.
Tuesday (23/08)
Stable Diffusion Image2Image open source / notebook
As it was in the original codebase, plenty of Image2Image demos showed up just after launch. Here we include the image2image colab notebook with diffusers.
Stable Diffusion image interpolation open source / notebook
@pharmapyscotic released a very fun notebook to generate interpolated (or in between images) between 2 or more prompts.
Yet Another Stable Diffusion Discord bot open source
Despite the name, this was the first tool to include Stable Diffusion on any Discord server, as long as the user self-hosts it. Along the week, other discord bots showed up such as Shanghai and Replicate's
Replicate demo open source / hosted tool / user interface
Replicate released their open source container and freemium service for using the model.
Windows GUIs released - Visions of Chaos user interface
The powerful (yet a bit complicated to get started with) digital art tool Visions of Chaos added support for Stable Diffusion on Wednesday, followed a little later in the week by specialized Stable Diffusion windows GUIs such as razzorblade's and grisk's.
Third-party hosted tool explosion hosted tool
NightCafe, Neuralblender, NeuralLove, Dezgo, Enstil all released their closed source stable-diffusion-as-a-service services day-1.
Wednesday (24/08)
Stable Diffusion animations (Deforum notebook release) open source / notebook
The Colab Notebook by the deforum community was released, it is capable of doing zooming animations with multiple prompts as well image interpolation and is just a lot of fun to use.
Stable Diffusion Figma plugin integration / announced
User RemitNotPaucity announced a Figma plugin to integrate Stable Diffusion to Figma workflows. One can sign up for product updates here.
Lexica Art - Stable Diffusion prompt search engine art support
Lexica Art is a search engine for prompts on Stable Diffusion.. One can search more than 5 million images and their respective prompts for inspiration and more.
Thursday (25/08)
Stable Diffusion inpainting open source / notebook / user interface
A Colab notebook with a Gradio GUI to do inpainting with Stable Diffusion was released. It uses the diffusers library, which added the inpainting demo as an example as well. Two days later, an even easier to use Gradio GUI was released.
hlky Stable Diffusion WebUI open source / notebook / user interface
A super advanced Gradio UI that runs locally and can do text2image, image2image, inpainting, textual inversion, upscaling and way too many features to list here. It has also been adapted to run inside of Google Colab
Artbreeder Collage hosted tool / user interface
Artbreeder Collage is on beta - a very advanced collage maker with Stable Diffusion both image2image and text2image.
Friday (26/08)
Alpaca - Photoshop integration hosted tool / integration / announced
Alpaca was announced as a plugin integration for Photoshop using Stable Diffusion, you can sign up for their beta here.
Stable Diffusion on AMD GPUs open source / hardware support
A hacky guide on how to make Stable Diffusion work with AMD GPUs was released.. I haven't tested it yet. A more robust solution is on
Diffuse the rest open source / hosted tool / user interface
An image2image GUI that resembles MS Paint
Saturday (27/09)
Stable Diffusion with video init open source / notebook
A Colab notebook by henryamsterfritz added the possibility to add an init video to Stable Diffusion.
Sunday (28/08)
Stable Diffusion + GIMP integration open source / integration / announced
Twitter user nousr_ showcased a proof of concept of integrating Stable Diffusion with GIMP using Google Colab as a backend.
Monday (29/08)
Stable Diffusion OpenVINO open source / hardware support
OpenVINO integration for Stable Diffusion, which allows it to run way more efficiently on CPUs.
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What a week, huh? And this is not even a comprehensive list, but one curated by me. Check out this reddit thread or Github readme for more comprehensive lists.