Creativity

AI Art Revolution: How Free AI Painting Generators Are Transforming Creativity in 2025

DALL·E 3, released in late 2023 and integrated into Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator, generated over 1 billion images in its first months. Craiyon (formerly DALL·E mini) launched in 2022 and has produced over 10 million images. StarryAI uses the backend Argo (powered by Stable Diffusion) and offers 1000+ stylistic presets, with a free plan of up to 25 images per day, watermarked outputs, and a daily 5-credit limit. Stable Diffusion, launched in 2022 as an open-source model, underpins tools like NightCafe, Leonardo.ai, and Hugging Face Spaces and supports user-trained custom models. In February 2025, Christie’s held a dedicated AI-generated art

27 July 2025

Leonardo AI Unleashed: The Generative Art Powerhouse Rivaling Midjourney and DALL·E

Leonardo AI launched in 2022 as a Sydney-based platform for image, art, and video generation. By mid-2024 it had over 19 million users who had generated more than a billion images. Canva acquired Leonardo.ai in 2024, with all 120 Leonardo team members joining Canva. Core models include XL variants like Anime XL, Lightning XL, and Phoenix, plus community models RPG v5 and DreamShaper. AI Canvas offers Live Canvas real-time sketch-guided generation, delivering control over every pixel. Veo, the AI Video Generator, can turn an image or prompt into a short animated clip with sound. 3D Texture Generation lets users texture

7 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Creativity · Digital Art · Generative Art · Leonardo AI