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Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to the forty-ninth edition of Civitai Biweekly, your essential guide to all recent developments and updates within Civitai.

This week, we’ll cover some extremely exciting new Civitai & Generative AI developments, including…

• Newsletter Milestone! 🎉

• Civitai Creator Program Update! 🖌️

• Community, CivBot Needs You! 🫵

• Exciting New Additions! 🛠️

• New Contest! 🏆

…and more!

1️⃣ 50th Newsletter! 🥳

This marks our 50th Civitai newsletter, and we couldn’t have done it without you - thank you for being part of this journey! To celebrate, we’re stepping outside our newsletter comfort zone and shaking things up with fresh new segments and features in #51!

Stay tuned, because the next 50 sends are going to be even better! 🚀

2️⃣ Civitai Creator Program Update 🖌️

We're evolving the Civitai Creators Program! To make creator compensation more sustainable and inclusive, we're introducing a new system tied directly to platform growth. To find out what this means for the site, and for our community, read the full brief here!

We’re also updating the pricing model for image generation with additional resources to better reflect the costs incurred and resources required to generate images. This change is essential to allow us to maintain a sustainable platform.

3️⃣ Community Initiative - Prompt Mod! 🛡️

Civitai is evolving its safety systems! We have long employed protection systems to prevent inappropriate or illegal content being created in our image Generator. The generative AI landscape is evolving, however, and while our current protections have served us well, we believe there’s room for an even better solution!

We’re looking for LLM enthusiasts to share their insights and experience, helping us shape the future of Civitai’s safety systems, and there’s $1,000 in compensation up for grabs! Find out more!

4️⃣ Site Additions

We’ve made a number of exciting little additions to the site recently, including;

• Showing which images have been remixed from others! Look for a green corner-flash in the bottom corner of images.

• The addition of a new chart to your Buzz Dashboard showing the number of images generated with resources you’ve created!

• Improving generation fallback logic! If a model used in a Remix is no longer available, the system will now automatically select the next closest version before defaulting to the Base Model.

Plus much more! Check out the changelog for more info, below!

5️⃣ Valentine’s Day Contest

Our Valentine's Day Image Contest is live! Celebrate love in all its forms by showcasing your creativity across five unique categories. Find out more, below!

Rendered Romance Valentine’s Day Contest!

Project Odyssey - Season 2 Finalists!

New & Updated Guides!

DeepSeek LLM Shock!

We've updated our Quickstart Guide to LLMs to include information on the groundbreaking DeepSeek R1, the fully open-source, MIT-licensed model that shook the AI world last week. With GPT-4-level performance at a fraction of the training cost, DeepSeek has disrupted both AI development and the stock market, even eliciting comments from global leaders! Check it out to explore this game-changing model!

Whether you're just beginning your Generative AI journey or you're already a seasoned pro, the Civitai Education Hub is your go-to destination for top-tier educational content - https://education.civitai.com 

Animagine XL 4.0 - SDXL Checkpoint

Cagliostro Research Lab’s Animagine XL 4.0 is the latest evolution of their Animagine XL series, retrained from Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 with 8.4 million anime-style images and over 2,650 GPU hours! Released under the permissive Open RAIL++-M license, it features improved identity and style training. Detailed usage tips are available in the model description, and it’s available for use on the Civitai Generator!

Hunyuan AllInOne ▪ Fast - Workflow for Hunyuan Video

LatentDreams' Hunyuan Video workflow is a high-performance pipeline designed for fast, high-quality video generation with minimal glitches. It centralizes controls in a "Control Room" for easy access to T2V, I2V, V2V, T2I, and I2I workflows, supports batch processing, interpolation, upscaling, wildcards, and more!

• New Users: 131,024

• New Creators: 11,331

• New Resources Published: 18.2 thousand

• Resourced Downloaded: 8.9 million

• Images Generated: 25.9 million

• LoRAs Trained: 32.6 thousand

• Support Tickets Resolved: 1123

Changelog

You may not be aware that Civitai is an Open-Source project, and you can - should you wish - review all of our 13,800+ commits on the Civitai Github!

For a more condensed and curated view, check out our Changelog! Updated regularly throughout the month with the most relevant major and minor changes, it’s the perfect way to stay informed on all the important updates and improvements happening week by week.

Visit the Civitai Changelog

Want to connect directly with the Civitai team, learn more about our platform, or gain insights from leading experts in Generative AI?

📅 Check out our Twitch streaming schedule and mark your calendar! In addition to our regularly scheduled Office Hours and AI Video streams, we have some thrilling, must-see events lined up that you won't want to miss!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Newsletter Buzz Reward

Thanks for sticking with us all the way to the end! Here’s your well-earned Newsletter Buzz ⚡(Yellow Buzz, too!) - consider it a ‘thank you’ for being a valued, informed, member of the Civitai community!