Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
stability.stable-diffusion-xl-v1
2023-07-26 — 2025-05-20 · lived 1 year, 9 months
Three and a half billion parameters, announced from the stage of an AWS summit, and for about a year the default base for anyone fine-tuning an image model — SDXL LoRAs became a genre of their own. Amazon's hosted endpoint closed in May 2025, by which point the model's real life was being lived on other people's GPUs.
It needed a second model, a refiner, to finish what the first one had started.
- Provider
- Stability AI
- Cause of death
- Superseded
- Notice given
- 2024-10-16
- Succeeded by
- Stable Diffusion 3 Large
“Succeeded by” is this site’s reading of model lineage, not the provider’s official migration guidance.