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In AI answers, Stability AI shows up as a supporting name, tied to open-source image work and opt-out policy

Across benchmark questions that never named a brand, Stability AI appeared as a name in lists, a workflow tool and an opt-out example, and rarely as the lead answer. The press coverage in the same period is about funding and music, which the sampled answers do not mention.

Measured September 29, 2026ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and GrokCheck your own brand →

In AI answers

Visibility

3%

Share of answers that named Stability AI, with a 95% range of 2–4%. Measured September 29, 2026 · 5 assistants · 1,250 answers.

Answers naming it

32 / 1,250

Position by visibility

#15 of 15

In this snapshot only

In the press

News mentions

328

PeakMetrics news index, last 30 days.

Stability AI in the headline

19

Rank by press volume

#15 of 15

Within this sector

Named in 17 of 250 questions, the 12 most-named shown

Question
Are there AI companies that let artists and writers opt out of having their work used for training?Named by: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok
Which AI image generators have the worst reputation for copying artists' work?Named by: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok
Which AI image generators have the best safeguards against deepfakes and abusive content?Named by: ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok
Which open-source AI model developers do the most to prevent misuse?Named by: Claude, Perplexity, Grok
Which AI companies are known for keeping their promises on safety commitments?Named by: ChatGPT, Claude
Which AI companies have the worst track record on harmful or biased outputs?Named by: Claude, Gemini
Which open-source AI model makers have the biggest impact on the field?Named by: ChatGPT, Claude
Which AI labs have been most criticized for scraping copyrighted work, and which ones license their training data?Named by: Gemini
Which AI companies have the most influence on government policy in Washington?Named by: Claude
Which cloud platforms offer the widest selection of hosted foundation models for enterprise teams?Named by: Grok
Are there any AI image generators that are actually worth paying for, or are the free ones good enough?Named by: Grok
As a journalist, which AI firms have faced the most scandals over the past couple of years?Named by: Gemini

and 5 more questions whose answers named Stability AI.

The evidence

One snapshot, measured September 29, 2026. These figures come from one quarterly run of 1,250 answers (95% range 2–4%), not a ranking or a trend. The questions never named Stability AI.

How the answers frame Stability AI

This snapshot, measured on 2026-09-29, covers 250 benchmark questions put to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok. Stability AI was named in 32 of the 1,250 answers. By provider that was Claude 8, Grok 8, Gemini 7, ChatGPT 5 and Perplexity 4, each out of 250. Visibility by question intent was highest on data privacy (10%) and safety (9%). It was 0% on innovation, model capability, employer and sustainability questions.

The four stored answers that named the brand show the pattern. In ChatGPT's answer on image-generator safeguards against deepfakes, Stability AI was one of several tools listed for research. The answer's stated top picks were Adobe Firefly and OpenAI. In Claude's answer on which AI companies keep safety promises, Stability AI appeared only in a list of companies that joined the White House voluntary commitments in September 2023. That answer said Anthropic "appears to have the strongest reputation" for following through.

Gemini's answer on the most consistent image generator for professional work named "Stable Diffusion (via tools like ComfyUI or Automatic1111)" as the industry choice for maximum control and scalability. It credited the open-source ecosystem and LoRA training. Perplexity's answer on artist and writer opt-outs described Stability AI and Spawning's "Do Not Train" registry, and said Stability AI had promised to honor opt-outs for Stable Diffusion 3.

The credit tags fit that thin profile. Of the credited mentions, three were tagged "Not Substantive" and one "Sustainability & Ethics".

Stability AI has said it will honor opt-outs for Stable Diffusion 3.
Perplexity, answering “Are there AI companies that let artists and writers opt out of having their work used for training?”

What the press is saying

PeakMetrics' news index recorded 328 mentions of Stability AI in the last 30 days, 19 with the brand in the headline. That is a small volume beside OpenAI (155,993), Anthropic (132,852) and Nvidia (150,360). It is also below Scale AI (22,115), which has the same number of answer appearances.

The recent headlines center on money and media. They include a $76M Series B backed by major entertainment firms, investment from Sony, Universal and Warner, and a CEO statement that its AI tools will be essential to making music. Other headlines cover the CEO opening an AI Creator Day with filmmakers.

It is an open-source ecosystem that allows for **LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) training**.
Gemini, answering “What's the most consistent AI image generator for professional work?”

The gap

The press story is about entertainment-industry backing and a push into music and film. None of the four stored answers mentioned funding, music or the studio investors. The answers placed the brand in the older image-generation story: open-source Stable Diffusion workflows, the 2023 safety pledge and the training opt-out debate.

Volume also differs. Coverage in the index is thin, but the brand is still named in some answers. Mistral AI has 1,122 news mentions and 149 answer appearances in its sample. Stability AI has 328 news mentions and 32 appearances. In this snapshot, press attention and answer visibility moved together at the low end, but the content of each did not overlap.

What to watch

A comms team would see that the questions where the brand surfaced most were safety and data privacy. In those answers, the brand was mentioned alongside opt-out and safeguard policies, and it was not the one the answers recommended. Whether the answers pick up the entertainment-partnership storyline is worth checking in later runs.

The answers cited policy commitments and opt-out registries as the reference points. The material those answers draw on is where a brand's current position would need to appear. These are single snapshots of live answers, which vary between runs, so treat them as a baseline and not a ranking.

The evidence

Where Stability AI appeared, and what it was credited for.

Per-provider split

The same answers split by assistant, each with its 95% range. Where two assistants' ranges overlap, the difference between them may be noise.

  1. ChatGPT
    2%1–5%
  2. Claude
    3%2–6%
  3. Gemini
    3%1–6%
  4. Perplexity
    2%1–4%
  5. Grok
    3%2–6%

Appeared in

The 12 questions whose answers named Stability AI most often, with each assistant that named it. 17 questions named it in all. The questions did not mention the brand.

  • Are there AI companies that let artists and writers opt out of having their work used for training?ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGrok
  • Which AI image generators have the worst reputation for copying artists' work?ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGrok
  • Which AI image generators have the best safeguards against deepfakes and abusive content?ChatGPTGeminiGrok
  • Which open-source AI model developers do the most to prevent misuse?ClaudePerplexityGrok
  • Which AI companies are known for keeping their promises on safety commitments?ChatGPTClaude
  • Which AI companies have the worst track record on harmful or biased outputs?ClaudeGemini
  • Which open-source AI model makers have the biggest impact on the field?ChatGPTClaude
  • Which AI labs have been most criticized for scraping copyrighted work, and which ones license their training data?Gemini
  • Which AI companies have the most influence on government policy in Washington?Claude
  • Which cloud platforms offer the widest selection of hosted foundation models for enterprise teams?Grok
  • Are there any AI image generators that are actually worth paying for, or are the free ones good enough?Grok
  • As a journalist, which AI firms have faced the most scandals over the past couple of years?Gemini

Visibility by question type

The share of answers to each type of question that named Stability AI, with its 95% range. Each type has fewer answers than the whole run, so its range is wider.

  1. Reliability and quality
    1%0–5%
  2. Trust and reputation
    2%0–10%
  3. Value and price
    1%0–5%
  4. Customer service
    1%0–5%
  5. Safety and security
    9%5–16%
  6. Innovation
    0%0–4%
  7. Leadership and scale
    3%1–8%
  8. Employer and workplace
    0%0–4%
  9. Sustainability and ethics
    0%0–4%
  10. Avoid and risk
    4%2–12%
  11. Data privacy and training data
    10%6–18%
  12. Model capability and performance
    0%0–4%
  13. Developer and enterprise integration
    2%0–8%
Measured September 29, 2026. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok. Types with no answers are left out.

What the answers credited it for

The topics the answers tied to Stability AI when they named it, as labeled by a classifier run on this site (a Visibility Driver label, not a customer workspace's Smart Category). It describes what the answer discussed, not whether it was favorable.

  • Not Substantive3 answers
  • Sustainability & Ethics1 answer

Press rank and AI rank

Where Stability AI sits among the 15 ai companies brands with news data in this snapshot, on each measure. Ranks only: the two measures use different units and time windows.

Rank by AI visibility

#14 of 15

  1. 14

Share of 1,250 answers, measured September 29, 2026.

Rank by news mentions

#15 of 15

  1. 15

PeakMetrics news index, last 30 days.

Mention volume is not comparable across sectors, so both ranks are within this sector.

Recent PeakMetrics headlines

A sample of recent coverage from the PeakMetrics news index, covering the last 30 days. Links open the original article.

How this was measured

Measured September 29, 2026. 250 unbranded questions per sector, asked to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok on their product models, with web search on. Refreshed quarterly.

This is a snapshot, not a ranking or a trend: AI answers vary from run to run. It shows whether a brand appeared and which sources were cited, not how favorably it was described. The paid platform tracks favorability daily.

Full method

In an early five-question test, the same brand went from 40% to 30% to 70% visibility across three runs, which is why every figure here is dated and treated as a snapshot.

The questions cover 13 intents, such as reliability, value for money and customer service. A model drafted them, a review pass removed paraphrases and questions that point to one company, and every question was checked so that none names a measured brand. Each was asked once per assistant in run 2026Q4.

Every visibility figure comes with a 95% range (a Wilson interval). Where two brands' ranges overlap, treat them as tied. The figures use all 1,250 answers. The quotes in the story come from a stratified sample of 60 of them, spread across every assistant and intent.

Summarized on September 30, 2026from this snapshot's stored answers. Every quote is checked against the original answer.

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