SDXL Turbo

Stability AI · 2023 · Image Generation · UK

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Stability AI
C · CEO & Politics: Prem Akkaraju — No public partisan activity documented
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Images
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text→Image
J · Jurisdiction: UK
K · Key Staffers: Prem Akkaraju (CEO), Robin Rombach (Lead Researcher)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Image Generation
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Stability AI Community License: free under $1M annual revenue)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Stability AI's SDXL Turbo, a version of SDXL 1.0 distilled with Adversarial Diffusion Distillation to generate 512x512 images from a text prompt in 1 to 4 sampling steps, fast enough for real-time synthesis; Stability reports human raters preferred its single-step images over LCM-XL's four-step output for image quality and prompt following.
S · Stock / Status: Private
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @StabilityAI
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Image Generation from Stability AI, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“SDXL Turbo.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/sdxl-turbo.html