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Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

stability.stable-diffusion-xl-v1

2023-07-262025-05-20 · 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Superseded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.

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