How is Stability AI going to make money? What they provide is super cool and VCs are into it but at some point they need to start giving them returns. Is the plan to get acquired?
Their business plan is to build custom models for clients/companies who want to own models built on their own data. No comment on the viability of such a business model.
You can buy credits to generate images using DreamStudio. In theory, this seems more convenient than running software locally. But last I checked, their image quality wasn’t all that interesting compared to MidJourney, so I stopped using it.
The Discord-based UI for MidJourney is clunky and unreliable, and waiting for images to generate is annoying. Image quality has improved quite a bit, but it’s no better at following instructions. So it seems like there’s an opening for a competitor, but the competition would need to actually be better.
When even users are recommending a subscription service, that's when you know we have become brainwashed into thinking it's a healthy or required practice.
