Sure, but I don't think civit.ai leans into the "novel/powerful/dangerous" element in its marketing. It just seems to showcase the convenience and sharing factor of its service.
a website that literally just hosts models with $5m in funding is plenty. It's not like they're doing foundation model research or anything novel, yet they nabbed a good amount of money for surfing the AI wave
Sure, but I don't think civit.ai leans into the "novel/powerful/dangerous" element in its marketing. It just seems to showcase the convenience and sharing factor of its service.
a website that literally just hosts models with $5m in funding is plenty. It's not like they're doing foundation model research or anything novel, yet they nabbed a good amount of money for surfing the AI wave
Pony diffusion imho qualifies as “foundation model research” and while it’s not directly Civit.AI, it’s indirectly them.
This is like saying chatgpt is “indirectly” made by Reddit…
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