Glossary term
Glossary term
Multimodal AI
Diffusion model that operates in a compressed latent space rather than pixel space, reducing computational cost significantly.
Stable Diffusion is a latent diffusion model - it encodes images to 64x64 latent representations via a VAE, runs diffusion in that space, then decodes back to 512x512 pixels, using 8x less memory than pixel-space diffusion.
Runway Gen-2 uses latent diffusion conditioned on text, images, or video clips to generate video footage - used by film directors for previsualization and by advertising agencies for rapid concept prototyping.
Adobe Firefly is built on latent diffusion models trained exclusively on licensed Adobe Stock content - providing enterprise users with copyright-safe image generation integrated directly into Photoshop and Illustrator.