In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore recent highlights from the current model proliferation wave sweeping the world - including Stable Diffusion XL, OpenChat, Zeroscope XL, and Salesforce XGen. They note the rapid rise of open models, and speculate that just as in open source software, open models will dominate the future. Such rapid advancement creates its own problems though, so they finish by itemizing concerns such as cybersecurity, workflow productivity, and impact on human culture. Leave us a comment (https://changelog.com/practicalai/230/discuss) Changelog++ (https://changelog.com/++) members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: • Fastly (https://fastly.com/?utm_source=changelog) – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com (https://www.fastly.com/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=changelog-sponsorship) • Fly.io (https://fly.io/changelog) – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog (https://fly.io/changelog) and check out the speedrun in their docs (https://fly.io/docs/speedrun/) . • Typesense (https://cloud.typesense.org/?utm_source=changelog) – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! • Changelog News (https://changelog.com/news) – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today (https://changelog.com/news) . Featuring: • Chris Benson – Twitter (https://twitter.com/chrisbenson) , GitHub (https://github.com/chrisbenson) , LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbenson) , Website (https://chrisbenson.com/) • Daniel Whitenack – Twitter (https://twitter.com/dwhitena) , GitHub (https://github.com/dwhitena) , Website (https://www.datadan.io/) Show Notes: • Stable Diffusion XL 0.9 (https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-0.9) • OpenChat (https://huggingface.co/openchat/openchat) • Zeroscope XL (https://huggingface.co/cerspense/zeroscope_v2_XL) • Salesforce XGen (https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/xgen-7b-8k-base) • AI is Eating The World (https://txt.cohere.com/ai-is-eating-the-world) • LLM university (https://docs.cohere.com/docs/llmu) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! (https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/practicalai/practical-ai-230.md)