Civitai | Discord | Twitch | Support | Merch

Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to the forty-eighth 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…

• Holiday Event Results! 🎄

• Quality of Life Enhancements! 🛟

• Civitai Transparency Report! 📈

• Civitai’s Year in Review! 🎉

…and more!

1️⃣ Holiday Contests

We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in our Festive Holiday Events! Your creativity, enthusiasm, and holiday spirit have truly made this season extra special. Whether you submitted entries, donated Buzz, or simply cheered others on, your involvement has made these events a wonderful celebration of community and talent!

We're currently finalizing the results, and we can't wait to share them with you! More details below!

2️⃣ Generator Enhancements

We’re continuing a “Quality of Life” push, adding enhancements to many site features! One of the most prominent recent additions is our new Resource Picker window, which now includes tabs for your Liked and Recently Used models, as well as sorting & filtering functions, and additional model details!

3️⃣ Civitai 2024 Transparency Report

At Civitai, open-source principles, transparency, and accountability are core to our mission. We believe in open communication with our community, sharing not only our successes but also our challenges.

With this in mind, we’ve released a comprehensive recap of our activities, detailing every facet of Civitai.com’s operations, summarizing platform growth, financial metrics, and operational efforts from the past year.

4️⃣ Civitai’s Year in Review!

2024 has been a phenomenal year, and we’re immensely grateful for all of our supporters! We've prepared some key stats to showcase what an incredible year it’s been and to highlight the milestones we’ve reached together. Here’s to continuing this amazing journey in 2025! ❤️

• Total # of New Users: 3.2 million

• Total # of New Creators: 242 thousand

• Images Generated: 599 million

• LoRAs Trained: 446 thousand

• GPU minutes spent LoRA training: 40,291,695 (76.6 years!)

• Resources Downloaded: 291 million

• Total Data Downloaded (Resources): 194 Petabytes

• Support Tickets Received: 13 thousand

• Education Hub Views: 680 thousand

• Twitch Total # of Hours Streamed: 257

• Twitch Total # of Live Views: 1.86 million

• Instagram New Followers: 15 thousand

• YouTube New Subscribers: 17 thousand

• YouTube Total # of Video Views: 1 million

Holiday Contests! 🎄

New & Updated Guides!

Beginner's Guide to Large Language Models!

Ready to explore the world of Large Language Models (LLMs) but unsure quite where to begin? Perhaps you’ve mastered text-to-image and now find yourself facing a new set of terminology and tools? Don’t worry - we’ve got you covered with the first iteration of our Quickstart Guide to Large Language Models, and accompanying LLM Glossary, on the Education Hub!

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 

Fluxmania III - Flux Checkpoint

Custom Flux checkpoints never cease to impress! Fluxmania III by Creator Adel_AI takes Flux to the next level with breathtaking environments and masterful artistic enhancements to the base model. Try this one out today!

Art Nouveau - Flux, SD1.5, SDXL, & PonyXL LoRA

Creator ArsMachina has crafted a phenomenal suite of Art Nouveau models, with no model ecosystem left behind! Whether you favor Flux, Pony, or even SD 1.5, Art Nouveau style has you covered!

• New Users: 144,082

• New Creators: 11,883

• New Resources Published: 18.3 thousand

• Resourced Downloaded: 12.8 million

• Images Generated: 28.7 million

• LoRAs Trained: 33.5 thousand

• Support Tickets Resolved: 783

Changelog

You may not be aware that Civitai is an Open-Source project, and you can - should you wish - review all of our 13,000+ 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!