Salad has officially partnered with Civitai, home of open-source generative AI. With 4 Million registered users on Civitai and nearly 2 Million Salad Chefs sharing their GPUs with businesses, this partnership brings two of the biggest open-source centered communities together. As Civitai’s founder put it:
“This partnership between Civitai and Salad isn’t just about building a network; it’s about creating a community-driven ecosystem where technology serves the collective, where each shared resource amplifies our collective potential.“
– Justin Maier
Civitai hosts thousands of Stable Diffusion models, generates millions of images, and fosters a huge community concentrated on creation and collaboration. They also help you earn Salad Balance! You heard it right – Civitai is officially powered by Salad. As part of this partnership, we’ve worked to bring a unique reward to the Salad Storefront: Civitai’s Buzz.
What is Civitai’s Buzz Currency?
Buzz is the Civitai on-site currency. For Chefs interested in generative AI, Buzz can provide a much deeper experience with both your personal generations and for engaging the AI community at large. Here’s what you can do with Buzz:
- Generative AI Features: The Civitai Image Generator will remain free to use, but some planned elements such as upscaling and/or advanced plugins may require Buzz
- Collaboration: Team up with other community members to tackle challenges and projects, all while earning Buzz rewards
- Tipping: Show appreciation to your favorite creators by tipping them with Buzz tokens.
- Personalization: Customize your profile with animated avatars, avatar frames, profile cover photos, and more.
- Post Bounties: Need a service, but don’t have the time or knowledge to achieve it? Post a Bounty with a Buzz reward and have the community help you out
- Train LoRA: You can spend your Buzz to train LoRA with the Civitai on-site LoRA Trainer! The LoRA trainer is a great way to create your own models
With a little Buzz, you can fully dive into generative AI and lean on Civitai’s powerful infrastructure and tools to create anything you can imagine. Ready to get Buzzing? We offer the following Buzz denominations in the Storefront as of today:
More information can be found on how to use and/or earn Buzz here, at Civitai’s Guide to Buzz.
A Salubrious Salad Salute to Our New Partner
Before you go grab your Buzz from the Storefront, we’d like to take a moment to say thanks to Civitai for working with Salad. Our founder already put it best:
“Salad is proud to power Civitai’s AI image generator, helping fulfill their commitment to democratize access to AI-tools. With Buzz on Salad’s storefront, we are helping 1000s of Salad chefs access Civitai’s open-source AI tools more easily.“
– Bob Miles
Partnerships like these are integral to the future of Salad, powering our network with compute-sharing jobs and bolstering the Storefront with awesome rewards. We hope you enjoy the Buzz Chefs, and we wish you Happy Chopping!
