[zamber]

There was an AMA with Emad yesterday on discord. He got asked this. The promise is that 1.5 will be released in the following week.

The slowdown has numerous issues. They got legal threats, death threats, and threats from some congresswoman to have them banned by the NSA (1).

Stability.ai workers (except for one) have a clause that they can open-source anything they're working on. They do and supposedly will open-source everything because they want to do a ecosystem, not a cash grab in the model of DALL-E.

Also they don't have one central place for all their projects and will scale from 100 to 250 employees in the following year so things should speed up.

1) https://eshoo.house.gov/media/press-releases/eshoo-urges-nsa...

[nl]

> banned by the NSA

Note that this NSA is the National Security Advisor, not the National Security Agency.

[cercatrova]

This is quite a distinction to make and I'm not sure why GP didn't make it. National Security Agency is what everyone thinks of being the NSA.