Check out @dvyio
's models. He fine-tuned SDXL on spectrograms, victorian illustrations, victorian photos, and polaroids. https://
replicate.com/davidbarker
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SDXL Fine-tuned Models: Spectrograms, Victorian Illustrations, Photos, Polaroids
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Code Llama API Available on Replicate with Multiple Models
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Run Code Llama with an API on Replicate. Code Llama can generate and discuss code. It's the best open-source model for things like debugging and code completion. • 7b https://
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Fine-tuning and ControlNet Advances for SDXL Text-to-Image AI
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Seeing the fast follow from the community racing to get fine-tuning and ControlNet working for SDXL has been exciting. These techniques bring text-to-image AI to life. Here are some examples of my dog Queso of SD2.1 Dreambooth (left) vs. SDXL LoRA (right). The quality is
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Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Released: Community Discovers Amazing Results
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In July 2023, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 was released. The 1.0 release of SDXL marks a huge leap forward over previous generations. It has only been a few weeks, and the community is still discovering how to make it amazing. So far the results have been stunning.
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Stable Diffusion 2: The Awkward Second Album
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In October 2022, Stable Diffusion 2 was released. It was sort of like the awkward 2nd album. Good, just… different. The migration to OpenCLIP as the text encoder significantly changed image composition and limited the use of artists' names that could be used in prompts.
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Stable Diffusion 1.4 Celebrates One Year Anniversary
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On August 22, 2022 (1yr ago today!) Stable Diffusion 1.4 made its debut. Happy Birthday Stable Diffusion! At last, it seemed like it was finally possible to generate consistently good images from a text prompt.
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VQGAN and CLIP Notebooks: A Significant Step Forward in Image Generation
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In April 2022, @RiversHaveWings shared a series of Colab notebooks that combined VQGAN and CLIP. https://
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Pixray reaches 1.3 million runs on Replicate platform
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In early 2022 @dribnet
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DALL-E Mini Launch: July 2021 Breakthrough by Boris Dayma
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Fast-forward a few months to July 2021: @borisdayma published DALL·E Mini https://
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OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 and the Rise of Diffusion Models
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In April 2021, OpenAI announced DALL·E 2 https://
openai.com/dall-e-2 and detailed their transition toward using diffusion models. It felt like the dream was coming true! You could prompt it for a photo of a cat wearing a red hat, and get a cat wearing a red hat!