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Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to the thirty-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…

• A New Foundational Model! 🪄

• New On-Site LoRA training modes! 🌟

• Civitai Early Access Features! ⏰

• New Education Hub Guides! 📖

• Maintenance Mode Contest! 🔧

…and more!

1️⃣ New Foundational Model - Flux!

Founded by a team of former Stability AI engineers, Black Forest Labs has quickly made waves with their debut suite of models, Flux.1. Available in three distinct variants, Flux.1 is already earning praise for its impressive controllability and high fidelity.

The Civitai community has quickly embraced Flux, with creators starting to release LoRAs to enhance the capabilities of the new models.

Even better, you can now train Flux LoRAS directly on Civitai, AND generate images with Flux using the Civitai Image Generator!

To help you get started, we’ve put together a Quickstart Guide to Flux.1 on the Civitai Education Hub. Check it out!

2️⃣ Civitai Early Access

We’re excited to roll out Early Access (EA), a game-changing feature designed to help creators monetize their work while staying true to the open-source spirit. With EA, certain resources require a Buzz payment to unlock, giving creators a fair way to earn from their contributions.

But don’t worry - resources in Early Access are only exclusive for a limited time. Once the EA period ends, they’ll be available to everyone in the model feed.

Want to learn more? Visit our Early Access Guide on the Education Hub for all the details!

3️⃣ New Education Hub Guides

With the launch of Flux and recent Civitai updates, we’ve refreshed and expanded several of our Quickstart and Getting Started Guides on the Education Hub.

If you’re just stepping into the world of Stable Diffusion or Generative AI, our Beginner Guides are the perfect starting point to help you get up to speed quickly and confidently! Check it out now!

4️⃣ Maintenance Mode Contest!

Think you’re funny? Join our latest contest and help us spruce up the Civitai Maintenance Page with your hilarious downtime artworks! It’s a great way to showcase your creativity and keep the community smiling during maintenance.

Read on for all the details!

🔧 Maintenance Mode Contest 🔧

Help us jazz up our Maintenance Mode page with your hilarious artwork - though, let’s be honest, with Civitai’s 99.9% uptime, it might never get seen 👀!

The last time we held this contest, we only had SD1.5 at our disposal. Now, with SDXL, Pony, Flux, and a whole array of other image generation models and techniques, the possibilities are endless! Show us your best Civitai Server Room catastrophes!

🤖 Project Odyssey Season 1 Recap 🎥

If you missed the winners from Project Odyssey Season 1, don’t worry - you can see them all right here.

Be sure to also visit the Project Odyssey YouTube channel, where you’ll find exclusive behind-the-scenes content and detailed breakdowns of the winning entries by category.

And don’t forget, early sign-ups for Project Odyssey Season 2 are now open! Register here to secure your spot!

Studio Update Eleven

As summer winds down, our artists are deep in creation mode, pushing boundaries in AI and art. From Jason Bailer Losh's steady grind on new paintings to Ira Greenberg's animated experiments, and the debut of our first Artist Round Table—catch the full update at the link below!

Check the full update for more on these incredible artists and projects!

Forge, not dead?

Illyasviel’s groundbreaking Stable Diffusion interface, Forge, which many thought had become "abandonware" for casual users, has just received a major update!

This surprise release includes support for Flux and a significant quality of life enhancement to the interface.

To get started with the new features, check out our Forge Quickstart Guide on the Civitai Education Hub!

New Streams & Captivating Guests!

Don’t miss our first ever Civitai Leadership Team Stream Quarterly Update!

We’ll be discussing what we worked on over the previous business quarter, as well as exciting changes have coming up in the next!

September 5th 12pm PST on Twitch, LinkedIN, YouTube, and X.

In a special Civitai Team Session this past week, we had the pleasure of being joined by one of our DevOps experts, Sean. Sean shared valuable insights into the world of DevOps and gave us a peek into some of his personal AI projects. It was an inspiring session that offered a unique look at the work happening behind the scenes at Civitai.

In this special Civitai AiR Session, we sat down with Drew Nikonowicz and discussed his first experiences with AI during the Civitai Artist in Residence Program.

Updated Guides & New Educational Content

Flux Guide

We’re excited to announce the release of our Quickstart Guide to Flux! This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to start generating stunning images with this groundbreaking new model. Whether you’re a seasoned creator or just diving in, this guide will get you up and running in no time.

Stay Tuned: The guide will be continuously updated with the latest tips, tricks, and developments as the community drives the evolution of the model. Don’t miss out – Flux is moving fast!

Early Access Guide

Early Access features are now live on Civitai for all users, and we’ve we’ve put together a comprehensive guide that walks you through everything you need to know!

Flux.1 - Novel Foundational Model!

Black Forest Labs has just released their groundbreaking Flux.1 foundational model! Flux comes in three versions, each trained with an impressive 12 billion parameters, and is built on a multimodal, parallel diffusion transformer architecture. In simpler terms? It’s incredibly powerful, delivering astoundingly good results.

You can start using Flux on Civitai’s Image Generator or with your local generation interfaces. Don’t miss out — get involved now!

Flux LoRA - Flux Style for SDXL

Experience the incredible fidelity of Flux on your preferred SDXL model! While the system requirements for running Flux locally are still on the higher side, and the LoRA and fine-tune ecosystem is just beginning to take shape, there’s exciting news: Creator AIDigitalMediaAgency has trained a stunning SDXL LoRA using Flux outputs, offering you a glimpse of what Flux can bring to SDXL!

• Models Uploaded: 12k

• Images & Videos Uploaded: 1.9M

• Reviews: 737k

• Comments: 33k

• Image Reactions: 10.2M

• New Users: 124k

• Support Tickets Resolved: 696

• Work-hours spent generating images with Flux: 80

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!

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!

• Civitai Leadership Team Stream Quarterly Update! - September 5th, 12pm PST.

We look forward to seeing you there!