Dead AI image products.

AI image products. A category where the deaths are still rare because most consumer image generators are still alive, but where the most consequential model in the field - DALL-E 2 - has already been retired. The product that proved a market existed lasted four years before OpenAI replaced it. For the live companies, decline can matter more than death: our essay on Stability AI traces how Stable Diffusion, the most-used open-source image model, won the launch and then handed the business to Midjourney, ChatGPT, and Adobe Firefly. DeepArt, one of the first public neural style-transfer tools and a direct ancestor of today's generators, went dark in 2022 and is the category's earliest death here. The archive will fill in.

• DALL-E 2

  2022 - 2026

  OpenAI's second-generation text-to-image model that opened consumer AI image generation to a mass audience.

  Undisclosed raised · 4 years alive

• DeepArt

  2015 - 2022

  One of the first public neural style-transfer tools, turning any photo into artwork in the style of a second image.

  Undisclosed raised · 7 years alive

• Google Clips

  2017 - 2019

  A clip-on camera that used on-device machine learning to decide on its own when to take a picture.

  Undisclosed raised · 2 years alive