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Stability AI offers Stable Diffusion, a family of AI models that generate images from text descriptions, available as open-source weights and via a commercial API. The latest version, Stable Diffusion 3.5, accepts text prompts and produces high-resolution images across styles including photography, painting, and 3D rendering.
Details
Stable Diffusion is a latent diffusion model, first released in August 2022, that converts text prompts into detailed images using a deep learning process. The model family has expanded through multiple versions including SDXL, Stable Diffusion 3, and Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (a 3.5 billion parameter model), each improving prompt adherence, image quality, and text rendering. Models are available for self-hosting, via Stability AI's Developer Platform API, and through third-party cloud providers including Amazon Bedrock.
Products affected
Stable DiffusionStable Diffusion XL (SDXL)Stable Diffusion 3Stable Diffusion 3.5Stable Image UltraStable Image CoreStability AI Developer Platform APIDreamStudio
Sources & Evidence
News Article
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Stability AI: Stability AI offers Stable Diffusion, a family of AI models that generate images from text descriptions, available as open-source weights and via a commercial API. The latest version, Stable Diffusion 3.5, accepts text prompts and produces high-resolution images across styles including photography, painting, and 3D rendering (data as of 2026-05-11) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/5d9a7a71-deda-4583-8c14-a320a9c7fc96. Accessed October 6, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/5d9a7a71-deda-4583-8c14-a320a9c7fc96
- Data as of
- May 11, 2026
- Last verified
- May 11, 2026
Other practices by Stability AI
Creative GenStability AI offers Stable Assistant, a consumer-facing chatbot that combines the company's image, video, audio, and 3D generation models in a single conversational interface. Users can generate or edit images, produce short videos, create music, and convert images into 3D assets through text prompts or by uploading existing media.Creative GenStability AI offers StableLM, an open-source series of large language models for text and code generation, available for developers to use, adapt, and deploy in their own applications. The series began in April 2023 and has been updated through multiple versions including Stable LM 2.Creative GenStability AI offers a suite of thirteen specialized image editing tools via its Developer Platform API, enabling targeted modifications such as object removal, background replacement, style transfer, and resolution upscaling. These tools are available to developers and enterprises integrating AI image editing into their own applications.
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