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> It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2.[0]

> The original Stable Diffusion V1 led by CompVis changed the nature of open source AI models and spawned hundreds of other models and innovations all over the world. It had one of the fastest climbs to 10K Github stars of any software, rocketing through 33K stars in less than two months.

[0] https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion

I did. Thank you!

You can run it locally, you don't need to use their service

Yes, it is open source. Visit the repo linked in the article and follow the setup instructions - no signup required