But then came this summer’s unveiling of the aforementioned Midjourney, which is free to anyone via its Discord bot. An even bigger surprise was the release of Stable Diffusion, which is not only free, but also open source — and the resultant models can be run on your own computer.

whether Europe could develop its own national open-source AI models. I moderated a fascinating panel with Yoshua Bengio, Yuval Noah Harari, Yejin Choi, and Eric Xing that included a discussion of whether new ideas in AI—continuous learning, neuro-symbolic AI, World Models–could shift power in the industry. If new ideas are what creates winners, and... See more