civitai

Civitai is an open source project that provides the codebase for a platform designed to share and manage generative AI models used for image generation. It focuses primarily on models compatible with Stable Diffusion and related technologies, allowing creators to upload, organize, and distribute custom AI models and related resources. These resources can include textual inversions, hypernetworks, aesthetic gradients, and variational autoencoders that modify or extend the capabilities of diffusion-based image generation systems. Civitai encourages collaboration by allowing users to publish their models, explore models created by others, and learn from the techniques used in the community. It also supports user accounts, model browsing, and interaction features that help creators showcase their work and receive feedback from other users. Developers can deploy the project to run their own instance of the platform and integrate with its available API to retrieve models.