I always wondered how this business model of “free and open source everything” would work out. While it’s a nice sentiment it’s obviously a money sink, and there’s a reason basically every other attempt at monetizing AI stays behind closed doors.

But the costs associated with so much compute were now threatening to sink the company. According to an internal October financial forecast seen by Forbes, Stability was on track to spend $99 million on compute in 2023. It noted as well that Stability was “underpaying AWS bills for July (by $1M)” and “not planning to pay AWS at the end of October for August usage ($7M).” Then there were the September and October bills, plus $1 million owed to Google Cloud and $600,000 to GPU cloud data center CoreWeave. (Amazon, Google and CoreWeave declined to comment.)

Jeez, and here I am just fiddling around with my own little projects on Kaggle with a budget of $0.

Edit:

Another former Stability executive was far more pointed in their assessment. “Emad is the most disorganized leader I have ever worked with in my career,” this person told Forbes. “He has no vision, and changes directions every week, often based on what he sees on Twitter.”

lmao

After some Googling I couldn’t find anything about “code-free” .exe’s or some “.EXE” framework, so probably just a joke.

The conclusion I get from Frieren is that if there was less sexism in Japan we’d get a lot better anime ✊😤

(And also less fan service of 11-year-olds. I’m looking at you, No Game No Life.)

Gave me flashbacks to my time working with Philips’ Tasy system in 2017.

By now they’ve surely finished implementing their HTML5 system which was somewhat better, but back then it was still a desktop app made using Delphi and Java, and it was basically as unsightly and unwieldy as the example in the meme lol