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title: Stability AI Apple Silicon Benchmarks
summary: Stable Audio is Stability AI's open-weights audio line. One model family makes both sound effects and music.
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# Stability AI Apple Silicon Benchmarks

Stable Audio is Stability AI's open-weights audio line. One model family makes both sound effects and music.

- Site: https://stability.ai

## Stable Audio 3

Three checkpoints from one repo: a small model for sound effects, a small one for music, and a medium one for better music. GroundSlate runs the MLX conversions from Stability's own optimized-runtime repo.

- Page: /resources/groundslate/benchmarks/makers/stability-ai/stable-audio

- Stable Audio 3 Medium (`stabilityai/stable-audio-3-optimized`): one music bed 8.14s. /resources/groundslate/benchmarks/sound/stable-audio-3-medium