The AI Museum
AI Analytics1,072 recordsRecounted 23 September 2026

Image generation models in 2023

7

Models

7 organisations

57%

Open weights

4 open, 3 closed

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By Epoch's flag

675M

Largest traceable

DiT-XL/2

2023

Span

1 with a traceable size

Releases

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Records

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Image generation models in 2023, newest first. Each row links to the source Epoch AI records for it.
ModelOrganisationReleasedParametersWeights
CTM (CIFAR-10)Stanford University2023-10Open
DALL·E 3OpenAI2023-10Closed
DiT-XL/2 + CADSETH Zurich2023-10675M *Closed
Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL)Stability AI2023-073B *Open
DiT-XL/2New York University (NYU)2023-03675MOpen
FireflyAdobe2023-03Closed
DDPM-IP (CelebA)Utrecht University2023-01295M *Open

An asterisk marks a parameter figure the source does not consider traceable to the people who built the model. That judgement is the source’s and it has false negatives: Kimi K3 is marked speculative at 2.8T while Moonshot’s own model card states the figure. Why that distinction carries the whole exhibit.

Counts are of models Epoch AI records as notable, not of every model released. The most recent month is always incomplete, because a model enters the dataset when it is reviewed rather than when it ships.

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