"Stability AI and OpenAI Release Powerful New Generative AI Tools"

Stability AI has announced a new version of its open source software called Stable Diffusion XL, which uses 2.3 billion parameters, far more than the company’s Stable Diffusion V2.1’s 900 million. The new model is an improvement on Stable Diffusion 2.1 and excels at photorealism with faces and image composition. The company is promoting it can handle notoriously difficult parts of images like natural text and hands. SDXL is only in beta, and its limited availability makes it hard to compare it to other newer versions of generative AI like Midjourney V5.