Stability AI is rolling out next-generation enterprise tools for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generator. Leading the pack is Stable 3D, geared toward game developers and  graphic designers, with results that integrate with popular 3D platforms including Blender, Maya, Unreal Engine and Unity, according to Stability. Now in private preview, Stable 3D enables non-experts to generate “thousands of 3D objects per day” by selecting an image or illustration or writing a text prompt. Another preview app, Stable FineTuning, provides the ability to quickly fine-tune pictures, objects and styles. A third tool, Sky Replacer, is available now.

Stable 3D automates the creation of 3D models that are “draft-quality” within minutes, Stability AI explains in a blog post, which notes images are output in the “.obj” file format. “Stable 3D levels the playing field for independent designers, artists and developers” for “very little cost.”

“Stable 3D seems fairly robust — and comparable in terms of its capabilities to other model-generating tools on the market,” is the verdict from TechCrunch, explaining that “users can describe in natural language a 3D model they want to create or upload an existing image or illustration to convert into a model.”

Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque says Stable 3D was created by incorporating Stable Diffusion with Objaverse-XL, a collaboratively generated library of more than 10 million objects that VentureBeat calls “one of the world’s largest open 3D datasets.”

“This is incredibly efficient compared to the classical kind of 3D model creation,” Mostaque told VentureBeat. “Things that classically took a long time to build now are quick to get the first cut.”

Sky Replacer is self-explanatory, while Stable FineTuning “provides enterprises and developers the ability to fine-tune pictures, objects, and styles with the ease of a turnkey integration for their applications,” Stability says.

“The new tools join Stability AI’s growing stable of AI-powered products, including the music-generating suite Stable Audio, doodle-creating app Stable Doodle and a ChatGPT-like chatbot,” TechCrunch writes. Those who would like private previews must sign up.

In AI imaging news, “a U.S. District judge in California dismissed copyright infringement suits against DeviantArt and Midjourney,” while allowing one count alleged by illustrator Sarah Andersen against Stability AI to proceed, writes SiliconANGLE. The claim of “direct copyright infringement” against Stability AI was “for copying Anderson’s 16 copyrighted works without authorization,” VentureBeat reports.