SDXL turns three, still the base model behind thousands of community fine-tunes
Dry-Resist-4426 · reddit · 2026-07-26
The post marks the third anniversary of SDXL, which Stability AI released in 2023.
It highlights two reasons SDXL mattered:
- It was a major step up from Stable Diffusion 1.5 in prompt understanding and image quality.
- It generated images at 1024×1024 natively and became the base for thousands of community fine-tunes.
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