Civitai Memberships, Resource Vault, Desktop App, huge image gen speed boost with Draft Mode, and more!

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Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to the twenty-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 developments…

• New Membership Tiers 🥇

• Civitai Vault 🔒

• Civitai Link v2 🔗

• Lightning Fast Image Generation 🖼️

• New Office Hours Schedule ⏱️

…and more!

1️⃣ New Membership Tiers

We've added three new tiers of Membership, uniquely (and creatively) named Bronze (10$), Silver ($25), and Gold ($50). Each Membership tier comes with its own perks, including access to Civitai Link v2, Vault storage, unique cosmetics, additional Buzz earned per month, Buzz multipliers on the amount earned, and more, in addition to the long-standing perks of Membership! For more information, read our Guide to Civitai Membership!

2️⃣ Civitai Vault

With the new Membership system comes Civitai Vault; your own secure, cloud-based storage solution for your favorite Civitai Resources! Save, organize, and download your models on-demand, safe in the knowledge that even if the original resource is removed from Civitai, you’ll still have access, at any time, from any device! To find out more about Civitai Vault, read our Guide to Civitai Vault, here!

3️⃣ Civitai Link v2

Civitai Link is now a standalone Windows, MacOS, and Linux application! Download Civitai resources to your local Stable Diffusion interface of choice with a single click, manage files in your Vault, and more! To find out more about Link, read our Guide to Civitai Link v2, here!

4️⃣ Image Generation

Need faster image outputs? Enable the new Draft Mode on the Civitai Image Generator for a huge speed boost! Rapidly test your prompts and models using SDXL Lightning and LCM technology for the fastest possible image returns!

We’ve also lifted the daily limit on image generation! Now, you can generate as many images as desired, with generation costing a small amount of Buzz. Why? We’ve done this to ensure a sustainable future for Civtai, and open-source AI. You can read more about the changes here, and read our full Guide to Using the on-site Civitai Image Generator, here.

5️⃣ New Office Hours Schedule

To make room for exciting new content we’re re-arranging our streaming schedule!

Office Hours, your chance to raise Questions directly with Civitai will be streaming on Discord and Twitch on Mondays and Wednesdays, with Tuesday’s stream being retired to make way for new content! The Thursday and Friday streams remain unchanged. Hope to see you there!

1️⃣ Open Source Sora!

An open-source contender to OpenAI’s Sora has emerged! Open-Sora-Plan aims to produce a simple and scalable open-source solution to the mind-blowing, closed-source, Sora txt2video model. It’s very early days in the development of Open-Sora-Plan, and the developers are looking for contributions from the community.

2️⃣ Generative AI Audio Arms Race!

Last newsletter we showcased what was, at that time, the pinnacle of txt2audio music generation; Suno. Two weeks later a new contender, Udio, has appeared on the scene, with exceptionally crisp quality and fidelity! Which service is in the lead? Tell us what you think in the Civitai Discord and share your Udio and Suno creations with the community!

1️⃣ Civitai Vault

We’ve released a quickstart Guide to Civitai Vault, containing everything you need to know about our new cloud-based secure resource storage service! Start building your Vault today to save your favorite models for the future!

2️⃣ Civitai Link

Discover what you can do with the new desktop-based Civitai Link v2, in our quickstart guide to Civitai Link. Manage your local Models, and your Vault resources, from one easy to use interface!

Studio Update Three

We’re wrapping up our first artist residency with exciting progress!

Domenec Miralles is finalizing "Infinite Mesh", soon to be archived in our AiR Gallery for interactive storytelling.

Meanwhile, Noah Miller has completed a 22-minute animatic and is now refining it to meet his cinematic vision.

Big steps in innovative art and filmmaking ahead!

Click through to catch up on the latest from our pioneering residents.

ReV Animated - V2 Rebirth

The venerable Rev Animated, renewed and rebirthed with a new lease of life from Creator Zovya - the new Rev Animated steward!

Vixon’s Pony Styles - Dramatic Lightning LoRA for Pony XL

Pony XL as you’ve never seen it before; now with dramatic lightning effects, from Creator Freckledvixon! We highly recommend checking out the other fantastic Pony styles on the same model card!

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

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