THE VERGE Friday November 4, 2022
Stability AI, the company behind popular text-to-image AI program Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding that values the company at around $1 billion, reports The Verge. It’s a significant validation of the company’s approach to AI development, which, in contrast to companies like OpenAI and Google, focuses on open-source models that anyone can use without oversight. Stability AI said it raised $101 million in a round led by Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and O’Shaughnessy Ventures, and that it will use the money to “accelerate the development of open AI models" for image, language, audio, video, 3D, and more.
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The National News Friday November 4, 2022
Saudi Arabia’s Visual Arts Commission has announced the winners of the inaugural $106,000 Kingdom Photography Professional Grant program and Kingdom Photography Discovery Competition. (The grants are designed to build a professional photographic archive of the Saudi region. This year’s competition focused on the Al Wajh area along the Red Sea coast.) Stockholm-based photographer and scuba diver Alex Dawson, Australian photographer Nyree Cox, and Buenos Aires-based photographer Andrea Alkalay are the three winners, notes The Nation News.
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Eventbrite Friday November 4, 2022
It’s time to party, at THE PARTY—American Photography’s annual event cerebrating the winners of the American Photography 38 contest, as well as the American Illustration 41 and the International Motion Art Awards 10 competitions. Come as you are, or as you hope to be, say the organizers: A Covid booster shot and mask are encouraged. Date: Nov. 10. Place: Angel Orensanz Foundation, 172 Norfolk Street New York, NY 10002. Time: 7:00 to 11:00 pm.
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David Schonauer Friday November 4, 2022
Gen Z is having a moment with digital point-and-shoot cameras of the early 2000s. In the last year, we noted this week, these pre-smartphone cameras have been popularized by celebrities on Instagram
like Bella Hadid, Devon Lee Carlson, Matilda Djerf, Emily Ratajkowski, and Nicola Peltz Beckham. On TikTok, the hashtag #digitalcamera has over 124 million views. "All of my childhood memorabilia was
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