DeepArt

DeepArt launched in 2015 out of the University of Tubingen, built directly on the landmark paper that introduced neural style transfer, and let anyone upload a photo and repaint it in the style of a chosen artwork. For a couple of years it was many people's first encounter with a neural network doing something visibly creative, a direct ancestor of the image generators that followed. It was also slow and expensive to run, and faster mobile rivals like Prisma took the audience. The site went dark in the second half of 2022, its servers no longer worth the cloud bill, and the operating company was later wound down. DeepArt proved the public appetite for AI image-making years before the tools that would monetize it existed, then exited before the boom it had helped seed.

Founded

2015-10

Shut down

2022-08-01

Funding raised

Undisclosed

Years alive

7

Founders

Leon Gatys, Alexander Ecker, Matthias Bethge