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What is LAION.ai?
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The Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) is a German non-profit with a stated goal "to make large-scale machine learning models, datasets and related code available to the general public". It is best known for releasing a number of large datasets of images and captions scraped from the web which have been used to train a number of high-profile text-to-image models, including Stable Diffusion and Imagen
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Are the models and datasets that they produce release under an open-source license?
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Yes, every product is licensed under the MIT License, a short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

You can read about this here: https://github.com/LAION-AI/laion-datasets/blob/main/LICENSE
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What is Laion working on right now?