Recently, a shocking event occurred in the AI field: Runway quietly removed its code base from the Hugging Face platform, including the much-anticipated Stable Diffusion v1.5 project. This move was not only not notified to Hugging Face or any community members in advance, but even the page on GitHub was cleared, causing great trouble to many developers and researchers who rely on these resources. The editor of Downcodes will provide a detailed interpretation of this incident and analyze its possible causes.
Recently, Runway suddenly and secretly deleted its code base from the Hugging Face platform, including the high-profile Stable Diffusion v1.5 project. This move caused quite a shock in the technology circle.
Runway’s behavior not only left no trace, but also did not provide any notification to Hugging Face or any community members. What’s even more shocking is that even the page on GitHub has become empty. This sudden change has undoubtedly caused trouble to developers and researchers who rely on these resources.
https://huggingface.co/runwayml
Runway was a participant in the Stable Diffusion study and had a place in related papers. They had confidently open sourced version 1.5 of Stable Diffusion on HuggingFace. However, this behavior caused controversy due to copyright issues, and eventually led to the version being required to be removed from the shelves.
https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5
In the face of copyright disputes, Runway's CEO/co-founder has publicly stated that releasing version 1.5 of Stable Diffusion is a reasonable act. He emphasized that the authors of the study include members of Runway ML and the University of Munich, and that the relevant research and code were open sourced last year.
https://github.com/runwayml/stable-diffusion
In addition to open source projects, Runway has also launched its own products, such as the Gen-3Alpha video solution, which marks the company's further exploration in the field of video technology.
There has been a lot of speculation about Runway’s sudden deletion. Some people believe that this may be related to previous copyright issues, while others speculate that it may be due to competitive pressure in the market, such as the rise of Cog-5B, which has brought challenges to Runway.
The incident of Runway deleting the code base triggered the industry to rethink the open source model and copyright issues. It also reminded developers and companies to carefully handle copyright and other related issues when open source to avoid similar incidents from happening again. The editor of Downcodes will continue to pay attention to the subsequent development of the incident.