# LAION

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/laion
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/laion.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/laion/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://laion.ai
- **Slug:** laion
- **Categories:** ai-machine-learning, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** The only non-profit providing internet-scale datasets (billions of entries) for free, breaking the data monopoly of big tech companies.
Source: Brand's website (https://laion.ai) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) is a German non-profit organization that provides large-scale datasets, models, and code to the public. It is best known for creating the LAION-5B dataset, which was the primary training source for the original Stable Diffusion models.
Source: Brand's website (https://laion.ai) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - LAION-5B
  - LAION-400M
  - OpenCLIP models
  - various open-source datasets and research papers.
Source: Brand's website (https://laion.ai) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Free (Open Source)
Source: Brand's website (https://laion.ai) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** AI Researchers, Machine Learning Developers, Academic Institutions
Source: Brand's website (https://laion.ai) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Meta AI (Research)
  - Hugging Face
  - EleutherAI
Source: Brand's website (https://laion.ai) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.