I wouldn’t say “The End” it’s more of a new beginning. Topaz Studio will be succeeded by Topaz Studio 2.0. It is heavily focused on the creation of different artistic looks and the user experience and workflows to do so. It has been in focused testing with multiple users over the last few months and will be entering into a closed beta later this week.
A more detailed letter concerning this topic will be published this week as well.
I will add that Topaz Studio 2.0 is a re-imagining of Topaz Studio and shouldn’t pose any significant increase in hardware requirement other than the minimum Mac OS will be raised to 10.12 based on a low level library requiring it. Further, I wouldn’t categorize this move the same as from a legacy plugin to an AI product.