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title: "LAION: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "LAION is a German non-profit organization which makes open-sourced artificial intelligence models and datasets. It is best known for releasing a number of large datasets of images and captions scraped from the web which have been used to train a number of high-profile text-to-image models, including Stable Diffusion and Imagen."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-laion
type: Organization
wikidata: Q114586027
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAION
website: https://laion.ai/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# LAION

> LAION is a German non-profit organization which makes open-sourced artificial intelligence models and datasets. It is best known for releasing a number of large datasets of images and captions scraped from the web which have been used to train a number of high-profile text-to-image models, including Stable Diffusion and Imagen.

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## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Status: private
- Website: https://laion.ai/
- Also known as: Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network
- Industries: artificial intelligence

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/laion_ai
- github: https://github.com/laion-ai

## Products

- Open Assistant

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on LAION, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-laion#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114586027, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAION

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