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The Journal
Announcements, model releases, tutorials, and behind-the-scenes updates from the NovelAI team.
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Introducing Pixel Snap
We’re excited to introduce Pixel Snap, the newest addition to Director Tools!
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NovelAI新機能が登場：「ドット絵お直し」
ディレクターツールに、新しい仲間が加わりました。
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[Image Generation] NovelAI Diffusion V5 is here!
NovelAI Diffusion V5 is a considerable step forward. Not because of any one feature, but because of how they all work together…
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NovelAI Diffusion V5 リリース: 画像生成をもっと自由に、もっと精密に
本日、新しい画像生成モデル NovelAI Diffusion V5 をリリースします。日本語プロンプトへの公式対応をはじめ、これまでで最も大きな進化をお届けします。ひとつの目玉機能があるというより、…
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Subscription Updates: Usage Limits & Subscription Anlas Policy Adjustments
In the interest of full transparency, we want to address an important update directly.
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NovelAIサブスクリプションに関する重要なお知らせ：利用上限とサブスクAnlasの取り扱い変更
いつも NovelAI で創作を楽しんでいただき、ありがとうございます。
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NovelAIポーション機能がNAI V4に登場 絵柄を魔法のように抽出・共有・合成
NovelAIポーション機能が NovelAI Diffusion V4 で利用可能になりました！
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Vibe Transfer is Now Available On NovelAI Diffusion V4
Vibe Transfer has now arrived for our V4 image generation models. We completely revised and upgraded its functionality, making it much…
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NovelAI Diffusion V4 Full版、正式公開しました！
本日、私たちの新しい画像生成モデル「NovelAI Diffusion V4」をご紹介します！
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Introducing NovelAI Diffusion V4 Full
The next generation Anime & Furry AI image generation model
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NovelAI Anime Diffusion V4 Curated Previewのご紹介
NovelAI V4モデルの初期成果をお見せした後、できるだけ早く皆様の手元にお届けしたいと考えました。この度、NovelAI Anime Diffusion V4 — Curated Previewのリリースを発表できることを大変喜ばしく思います。
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Release — NovelAI Anime Diffusion V4 Curated Preview (EN)
After showing off some early results from our NovelAI V4 model, we have decided to get it into your hands as soon as possible. We’re very…
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Dev(b)log #4 — Alpha Onions
Talking about Alpha, the typical struggles of development, and some leeks tossed towards the end.
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[Text Generation] Kayra Context Expansion & Higher Max Generation Lengths
Extending some love to Scroll and Tablet tiers, plus new max generation lengths for Kayra and Erato
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チュートリアル：画像生成入門
こんにちは！本日は、NovelAI Diffusionを使って素敵な作品を作る方法をご説明します。
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Tutorial: Intro to Image Generation
Today, we’ll teach you how to create your own NovelAI Diffusion masterpieces.
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クイックスタートガイド（日本語）
最新かつ最も強力なモデル、Llama 3…
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Muscle up with Llama 3 Erato!
Bulk up your storytelling game with our latest storytelling language model!
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Inference Update: Llama 3 Erato Release Window, New Text Gen Samplers, and Goodbye CFG
Readying our compute clusters to bring you the long-awaited next text generation model!
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Summer Sampler Update (EN)
Summer may be ending (at least where we are), and we haven’t been to the beach yet, but there’s still time to make a splash!
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Summer Sampler Update (JP)
夏のサンプラーアップデート
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NovelAI Diffusion V1 Weights Release (EN)
Public NovelAI Diffusion V1 image generation model release
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NovelAI Diffusion V1 Weights Release (JP)
NovelAI Diffusion V1 ウェイト公開のお知らせ
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Wave 2 of AetherRoom’s Closed Alpha Test kicks off Monday, August 12th!
This wave will be around ~100 people, the same as before. or will it? eheheheheh
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NovelAI Director Tools Update (EN)
Introducing Director Tools.
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NovelAI Director Tools Update (JP)
本日NovelAIに、皆さんの創作活動を楽にするための便利な機能の付いた新たなツールセットが追加されました！
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AetherRoom’s Closed Alpha Test will be starting Monday, July 15th!
How’s this all gonna go down? We’ll be starting off the test on the 15th by silently contacting ~100 people who applied via the Closed…
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Announcing AetherRoom’s Closed Alpha Test
The time has come… TO GET TESTING!!!!
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Kickstarting Your First AI-assisted Story: A Beginner’s Guide
Author’s Tips & Tricks: An amazing NovelAI storytelling guide, created by one of our community members, Basileus
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Creating illustrations using NovelAI Diffusion Vibe Transfer (@kuroito_tsumugi) (EN)
Using their own drawn art with vibe transfer, (@kuroito_tsumugi) shows off their process of creating new images. Don’t forget to follow…
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Creating illustrations using NovelAI Diffusion Vibe Transfer (@kuroito_tsumugi) (JP)
バイブストランスファーを使い、自分で描いた絵から新たなイメージを生み出すプロセスを披露している(@kuroito_tsumugi)さん。フォローをお忘れなく！黒糸つむぎさん、Mediumブログでオリジナル記事を使用させていただき、ありがとうございました。…
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NovelAI Diffusion Furry V3 (JP)
ファーリーやスケーリィといったアートがお好きな皆さんにお楽しみいただける時が来ました！
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NovelAI Diffusion Furry V3
Paw into the furriest side of AI with NovelAI’s long-awaited Furry v3 image model! With the same excellence as our NovelAI Diffusion V3!
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NovelAI: Tokyo AI Festival winners (JP)
日本から帰国したチームは再び日常に戻り、NovelAIとAetherRoomの仕事に没頭しています。そんななか、東京AI祭で行われた画像コンテストの入賞者をここに祝福できますことをうれしく思います。素晴らしい作品の数々を存分にお楽しみください！
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NovelAI: Tokyo AI Festival winners (EN)
After returning from Japan, the team has plunged right back into the hustle, focusing on NovelAI and AetherRoom. Nonetheless, we’re…
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NovelAI Diffusion Showcase: Exploring Creativity (JP)
NovelAI Diffusion v3のリリース以降、ユーザーの皆さんが生み出す多彩なコンテンツに接するたび、大変嬉しく思っています。このNovelAI…
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NovelAI Diffusion Showcase: Exploring Creativity (EN)
It has been a pleasure to see the variety of content that NovelAI Diffusion v3 users have created since it was released. We invite you to…
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AetherRoom Devlog #3 — AI Leek Peeks and Progress
We’re pulling back the curtain and exposing a sneak peek into the current status of AetherRoom’s AI model!
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Vibe Transfer — Japanese Announcement
バイブストランスファー
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Vibe Transfer
Today’s release is a new feature for NovelAI Diffusion V3 called “Vibe Transfer”. With Vibe Transfer, you can upload an input image that…
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JP — AI Artist Spotlight & Tutorial:Tohofrog (@tohofrog)
自己紹介 はじめまして＆こんにちは。とほがえる(@tohofrog)です。NovelAIのチームより、NovelAIを使った創作の手法について解説をして欲しいというお話があり、この記事を執筆することになりました。
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EN — AI Artist Spotlight & Tutorial:Tohofrog (@tohofrog)
Self-Introduction Nice to meet you and hello. I am TohoFrog (@tohofrog), and the NovelAI team asked me to share my method of creating…
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Event Report: Image Generation AI New Year’s Party in Japan
We’ve written a little blog post covering our experience attending the Image Generation AI New Year’s Party hosted by @tokyoaisai 東京AI祭
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イベントレポート：日本で開催された画像生成AI新年会
先日、東京AI祭（TokyoAIsai）チーム主催の画像生成AI新年会に参加させていただきました。東京AI祭チームは、2022年、2023年に私たちが日本で行ったアクティビティ（AI画像展プレ展示会 &…
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AetherRoom Devlog #2 — Makings of a Contact
We’re back for the second AetherRoom devlog, and this time we’ll quickly cover the general composition of AetherRoom’s Contacts.
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JP- 話題のAIアーティスト＆チュートリアル: Citrus (@AI_Illust_000)
はじめましてのご挨拶 皆さん初めまして、シトラスと申します。 私は日本に住んでおり、普段から画像生成AIを用いてさまざまなイラストを作っています。
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EN - AI Artist Spotlight & Tutorial: Citrus (@AI_Illust_000)
Citrus (@AI_Illust_000) the first place winner of the @AI_contest hosted in Japan last year, and NAIDiffusionV3 alpha collaborator artist!
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AetherRoom Devlog #1 — Delays, Direction, and Design
Talking about AetherRoom’s release moving forwards, going over the design ethos of AetherRoom, and showing off some WIP visuals
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チュートリアル：NovelAI Diffusion Animeで一貫したキャラクターを作る【女性編】
NovelAI Diffusion Anime 画像生成モデルは、Stable Diffusionに基づいていますが、様々なタグを認識するようにカスタマイズされているので、その体験は唯一無二のものとなっています。
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Tutorial [EN]: Creating Consistent Characters with NovelAI Diffusion Anime [Female]
The NovelAI Diffusion AI Anime image generation model uses tags to prompt it — let’s use those for generating a consistent female…
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Introducing NovelAI Diffusion Anime V3
It has been less than a month since we introduced V2 of our Anime AI image generation model, but today, we are very happy to introduce you…
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Introducing NovelAI Diffusion Anime V2
We are very happy to finally introduce you to the first new image generation model we will be releasing. This one is mainly intended as an…
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Goodbye Calliope
A while ago, we retired our oldest model, Calliope, which was based on EleutherAI’s GPT-Neo 2.7B. This model was our first step into…
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Kayra for all NovelAI Subscription Tiers & Free Trial, Clio 8K context for all tiers
NovelAI is pleased to announce that NovelAI-LM-13B-402k, Kayra, our strongest proprietary model tailored for storytelling, is now available…
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Introducing NovelAI-LM-13B-402k, Kayra
Our new 13B model Kayra is coming to Opus
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Clio for all NovelAI Subscription Tiers & Free Trial, Text Adventure for Editor V2
NAILM 3B, the first proprietary model tailored for storytelling, Clio, is now available on all tiers + free trial
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Inpaint with NovelAIDiffusion!
It’s time to bring Inpainting into Image Generation for NovelAIDiffusion!
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A New Model — Clio is Coming to Opus!
Finally, the time is upon us! Our first model, trained from scratch on our own custom datasets totaling more than 1.5 trillion tokens…
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Text Model Progress is going Good!
We are now training our own large language models from scratch! Starting off with a small proof of concept text model!
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NovelAI’s New LLM Tokenizer
Finetune here to talk a bit about NovelAI’s new LLM tokenizer!
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NovelAI ControlNet Tools, Upscaling & New Image Generation UI
We’ve completely overhauled our Image Gen UI, added ControlNet Tools, Upscaling, and increased max images to generate
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Anlatan acquires HGX H100 Cluster
We’re absolutely thrilled to finally unveil the culmination of the past 6 months’ hard work and dedication!
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CoreWeave Announces NovelAI as Among the First to Have NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs Online
We are proud to announce an exciting new development to the NovelAI community after months of preparation!
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Smea Support for more NovelAIDiffusion Samplers & Introduction of New Samplers
Enhanced image quality with NovelAI’s upgraded Image Generation SMEA samplers.
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NAI_Smeaが登場！高画質生成も可能になります！
皆さんこんにちは。本日は私達の画像生成AIであるNovelAIDiffusionに新しいサンプラーが追加されたことをお知らせします。その名も nai_smea と nai_smea_dyn ！ 二つのサンプラーが加わって、ついに高画質生成ができるようになりました！…
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Introducing nai_smea & higher Image Generation Resolutions!
A new set of NovelAIDiffusion Image Generation Samplers: nai_smea & nai_smea_dyn & a Max Resolution Limit increase.
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AI Image Contest Exhibit Q&A
On the last day of the AI Image Contest Exhibition in Yokohama, we partook in a Q&A with community questions!
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AI Contest Pre-Exhibit
A few weeks ago, we received a very passionate request to make use of NovelAI’s Image Generation in Japan’s first AI Art contest.
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NovelAI Aspect Ratio Bucketing Source Code Release (MIT Licensed)
Training with aspect ratio bucketing improve sthe quality of outputs of Image Generations, so we’re releasing the NovelAI source code for…
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The Magic behind NovelAIDiffusion
Let’s talk about how NovelAI Diffusion actually works!
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NovelAI Improvements on Stable Diffusion
As part of the development process for our NovelAIDiffusion image models, we modified the base SD model architecture and training…
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Image Generation Announcement
The time is finally upon us. NovelAI's Image Generation is now live!
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NovelAI’s 1st Anniversary & Stream Recap
Wow, It has already been a whole year since NovelAI was released! Let’s cover some of the things just released and coming soon™️
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The Faces of NovelAI’s AI Models: Part 2
As previously threatened, we’ll be covering the newest additions to our NovelAI AI model family in this entry!
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The faces of NovelAI’s AI Models: Part 1
A little more info on how the NovelAI AI models Calliope & Sigurd acquired their visuals!
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The NovelAI Stream V2 Summary
A full summary of the NovelAI Twitch V2 stream from Friday April 29th!
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Lorebook V3 has arrived
Today, we’re announcing Lorebook v3: featuring a refreshed UI, multi-select entries, tabbed settings, a docking system, and a reworked…
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The 1st NovelAI Stream & Q&A Summary
First off, thank you all for making the first NovelAI Twitch stream a blast! We’ve had a fantastic time answering questions, chatting, and…
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Data Efficient Language Transfer with GPT-J
We release Genji-JP 6B, a model finetuned on our Japanese storytelling dataset. We explore language transfer on big LMs without any changes…
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Lorebook Generation, Custom Context Menu & more!
Let’s show off a whole range of exciting additions coming to NovelAI today!
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Introducing Custom AI Modules
Today, we’re excited to launch the long awaited AI Module training feature to Opus tier users.
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Roadmap: Pricing, Launch, Scaling & New Features
This blogpost is separated into 3 parts:
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The First Month of NovelAI
Hello everyone!
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