I dunno. Theres some experimentation with 2.1, but the consensus seems to be that it produces inferior output to 1.5 outside of some niches, and thats before taking the 768x768 1.5 finetunes into account.
Deepfloyd is niche.
SDXL is indeed interesting, especially if its happy with 4/8 bit quant... we will see about that.
Nevertheless StabilityAI seems kinda disconnected from all the innovations going on in the community compared to, say, huggingface.
It's a faulty consensus that came from people comparing outputs from the base model with fine tunes of the SD1.5 model. SD2.1 actually is a far superior model once fine-tuned.
I agree that it's a shame that StabilityAI seem to struggle so much to actually leverage their community (ideally with much more open development)... One could say they're a little too "full of themselves" and think they know better than everyone else.
Deepfloyd is niche.
SDXL is indeed interesting, especially if its happy with 4/8 bit quant... we will see about that.
Nevertheless StabilityAI seems kinda disconnected from all the innovations going on in the community compared to, say, huggingface.