“No models used today will be used in a year — the current crop of AI models will be obsolete within twelve months given the pace of advancement.”

Emad MostaqueCEO

Co-founder and CEO of Stability AI

A year later the May-2023 models were still in heavy production use: GPT-4/GPT-4 Turbo still powered ChatGPT and most enterprise deployments in May 2024, and Stable Diffusion 1.5/SDXL remained the workhorses of the open-source image ecosystem.