Why is there speculation that midjourney is based on stable diffusion if MJ is released earlier than SD?

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  • People who made these colabs better and better also the same people who are at Midjourney now. But the "mother" of it all, was Katherine Crowson. She made a fine tuned model that uses a 512x512 unconditional ImageNet diffusion model fine-tuned from OpenAI's 512x512 class-conditional ImageNet diffusion model (https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion) together with CLIP (https://github.com/openai/CLIP) to connect text prompts with images. It uses a smaller secondary diffusion model trained by Katherine Crowson to remove noise from intermediate timesteps to prepare them for CLIP.

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    CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), Predict the most relevant text snippet given an image

  • People who made these colabs better and better also the same people who are at Midjourney now. But the "mother" of it all, was Katherine Crowson. She made a fine tuned model that uses a 512x512 unconditional ImageNet diffusion model fine-tuned from OpenAI's 512x512 class-conditional ImageNet diffusion model (https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion) together with CLIP (https://github.com/openai/CLIP) to connect text prompts with images. It uses a smaller secondary diffusion model trained by Katherine Crowson to remove noise from intermediate timesteps to prepare them for CLIP.

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