Stable Diffusion 2 Stable Diffusion 2 is a text-to-image latent diffusion model built upon the work of the original Stable Diffusion, and it was led by Robin Rombach and Katherine Crowson from Stability AI and LAION. The Stable Diffusion 2.0 release includes robust text-to-image models trained using a brand new text encoder (OpenCLIP), developed by LAION with support from Stability AI, which greatly improves the quality of the generated images 