alt.hn

5/20/2026 at 3:10:05 PM

Stable Audio 3

 https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17991

by guardienaveugle

5/20/2026 at 8:09:39 PM

Great release! It's awesome that they trained smaller models. With some effort I was able to get them running on my generative sampler/groovebox project this morning (shameless plug: https://engram.audio)

Also appreciate the attention to detail with licensing in the training set. This is an important sticking point – both commercially and ethically – for any product that integrates this type of model.

by evmaki

5/20/2026 at 6:08:29 PM

Are the released models models useful? I'm worried about their description of the output. I haven't had a chance to try them yet and unable to run them on hugging face at the moment. The https://stableaudio.com/ sample on their website could be used as sample materials for song making but definitely lacking frequency range expected today as a final product.

by hununu

5/20/2026 at 6:22:36 PM

It is insanely fast. Less than 2 seconds for 120 seconds of audio in my 3090.

It sounds too much like general midi. It is better for electronica than for any other genre.

Impressive nonetheless

by rafadc

5/20/2026 at 7:46:09 PM

"Two early 20th century authors are talking while walking downtown Paris, occasionally noticing landmarks, while we hear horse hooves as well as a few cars"

https://stableaudio.com/1/share/b4eeaa11-cf29-4e09-88cd-a058...

by infruset

5/20/2026 at 8:40:31 PM

Wow that’s remarkably nonsensical.

by SequoiaHope

5/20/2026 at 5:17:05 PM

"We also support inpainting, enabling targeted audio editing and the continuation of short recordings."

I didn't know there were models for that. Very cool!

by nullbyte

5/21/2026 at 1:24:57 AM

PlayDiffusion is a notable one. But the state of the art is quickly evolving.

by oezi

5/20/2026 at 5:52:23 PM

This is a very small item, but I found it interesting that the paper does not credit Stability AI in the author bylines.

by vessenes

5/20/2026 at 8:45:16 PM

How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI, and something that can create super niche sound effects. This feels like Suno 1.0 levels of quality but maybe it can get there?

by halyconWays

5/20/2026 at 4:34:20 PM

Stability.ai is still around?

I thought they died because they gave away everything for free with no revenue model.

Emad trained a lot of really great models, but he just gave them away. This cost enormous sums of money.

I wish for a world where Stability gave away the weights, but had a monetization loop to keep going. Imagine if we had OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability to counter Google. And imagine if the US had a sizable open weights company.

by echelon

5/20/2026 at 7:26:33 PM

Think it's more they died because they fumbled Stable Diffusion 2 and 3, also the seemingly the real image talent left to Blackforest Labs plenty of others are doing ok shipping open models.

by whywhywhywhy

5/20/2026 at 6:35:41 PM

There are plenty of companies with open weights.

by victorbjorklund

5/20/2026 at 6:50:28 PM

I'd really love a list if you're offering.

by echelon

5/20/2026 at 6:48:52 PM

Interesting that Google is the counter target in your mind. Anthropic is the only company mentioned that doesn't release any open weight models -- as a so-called "public benefit corporation" this is arguably a glaring lack.

by waffletower

5/20/2026 at 5:48:01 PM

I wonder if we just discovered that we’re living in that world. :)

(To fill in some gaps: they’ve consistently had a revenue model, first subscriptions to use their models commercially then fixed-floor cost per generation with revenue sharing with them)

by refulgentis

5/20/2026 at 5:46:03 PM

hmm stableaudio.com seems to be dead tho? at least it is for me

by 0gs

5/20/2026 at 8:17:15 PM

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