Lensa AI

Prisma Labs – known for its Prisma photo-effects app – introduced a “Magic Avatars” feature in its Lensa app that uses AI to create artistic avatars from user photos. With this feature, users upload a set of selfies, which the AI processes to generate a collection of stylized portraits depicting the user in imaginative ways.

The resulting avatars might portray the person as a fantasy hero, a whimsical cartoon, a futuristic sci-fi character, and more – each image rendered in a distinct art style. The technology employs advanced neural networks trained on diverse art references, so the avatars maintain the user’s basic likeness while applying creative transformations.

People often use these AI-generated portraits as profile pictures or share them on social media, since they offer a personalized yet artistic representation of oneself. Lensa’s viral success with Magic Avatars showcased how AI can turn ordinary photos into a gallery of unique artwork, giving users a fun new way to visualize themselves.