Stable Audio Open 1.0 is an AI model that utilizes an autoencoder, T5-based text embeddings, and a transformer-based diffusion model to generate up to 47 seconds of stereo audio. It generates music and audio through text prompts, supporting research and experiments to explore the current capabilities of generative AI models. The model is trained on datasets from Freesound and the Free Music Archive (FMA), ensuring data diversity and copyright legality.