ML models

Comparing few-step image generation models

Few-step image generation models like LCMs, SDXL Turbo, and SDXL Lightning can generate images fast, but there's a tradeoff when it comes to speed vs quality.

The best open source large language model

Explore the best open source large language models for 2025 for any budget, license, and use case.

Playground v2 vs Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 for text-to-image generation

Playground v2, a new text-to-image model, matches SDXL's speed & quality with a unique AAA game-style aesthetic. Ideal choice varies by use case & art taste.

Stable Video Diffusion now available

Stability AI announced the release of Stable Video Diffusion, marking a huge leap forward for open source novel video synthesis

Open source alternatives for machine learning models

Building on top of open source models gives you access to a wide range of capabilities that you would otherwise lack from a black box endpoint provider.

A checklist for switching to open source ML models

Transitioning from using ML models via closed source APIs to open source ML models? This checklist provides all necessary resources for the shift.

Pinning ML model revisions for compatibility and security

Pin versions of open source packages like PyPi's transformers to avoid breaking changes or security issues; similarly, pin model revisions for stability.

Deployment and inference for open source text embedding models

Text embedding models convert text into semantic vectors. Numerous open source models cater to search, recommendation, classification & LLM-augmented retrieval.

Jina AI’s jina-embeddings-v2: an open source text embedding model that matches OpenAI’s ada-002

Jina AI released jina-embeddings-v2-base-en, a text embedding model that matches OpenAI’s ada-002 model in both benchmark performance and context window length.