Unlike other companies, Stability AI has never abandoned its open source approach. Everything achieved with Stable Diffusion so far was possible thanks to releasing its code along with the weights, and now it's the turn of StableStudio. At first, StableStudio is an open source interface that behaves very similarly to DreamStudio, but by incorporating support for plugins, it is expected to gain flexibility and compatibility with alternative models.
If you want to generate images with artificial intelligence for free and with advanced parameters, you have two paths: The first is BlueWillow, a direct rival to Midjourney, which we have recently tested. The second is Stable Diffusion, as long as you have enough processing power for its local and offline execution.
Stable Diffusion is a creature of Stability AI, and its online alternative with a credit system is DreamStudio. This platform is very useful for testing the latest models available from the company (SDXL beta version at the time of writing). However, Stability AI recently announced StableStudio, "the open source future" of DreamStudio, and a new opportunity for the community to adapt this resource to its needs.
StableStudio, another open source bet from Stability AI
The company recognizes that it does not yet have a completely defined direction for StableStudio, but at this time it includes image generation support and a preliminary plugin system. The only one officially available is Stability's, which in turn requires generating an API key in DreamStudio. The idea is for developers to write additional plugins to experiment with other stacks, either locally or through another online API.
The installation process clearly points towards Linux (or a WSL environment with Node.js and Yarn), but in general terms we can say that it is a clone of DreamStudio with minimal adjustments (all references to the 'DreamStudio brand', the purchase of credits and the administration of API keys were removed). If in the near future StableStudio allows us to load alternative models with relative ease, we will definitely talk more often about this project.
StableStudio on GitHub: Click here
Official announcement: Click here
