[1] Prisma Labs was founded in 2016 by Andrey Usoltsev, Alexey Moiseenkov, and a team of Russian developers.
[3] In 2016, the company launched the Prisma app, which uses artificial intelligence to duplicate photos in various artistic styles.
[1] In late November 2022, Lensa's "magic avatars" feature was launched, which, for a fee, uses artificial intelligence and users' uploaded selfies to create portraits of the users in various styles and settings within minutes.
[1][4][3] Lensa uses Stable Diffusion, an open source text-to-image model launched by Stability AI in August 2022.
[6] Prisma Labs uses the Stable Diffusion generative engine to power the Lensa apps’s Magic Avatar feature.