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.
Google Pixel Studio
2024 - 2026A Pixel-exclusive AI image generator that shipped as a reason to buy the phone and was switched off from inside its own app update.
Undisclosed raised · 2 years aliveDALL-E 2
2022 - 2026OpenAI's second-generation text-to-image model that opened consumer AI image generation to a mass audience.
Undisclosed raised · 4 years aliveGoogle Whisk
2024 - 2026A playful Google Labs image generator that remixed a subject, a scene, and a style instead of asking for a text prompt.
Undisclosed raised · 1 year aliveDeepArt
2015 - 2022One of the first public neural style-transfer tools, turning any photo into artwork in the style of a second image.
Undisclosed raised · 7 years aliveGoogle Clips
2017 - 2019A clip-on camera that used on-device machine learning to decide on its own when to take a picture.
Undisclosed raised · 2 years alive