Animation

Upscaling videos using VSGAN and TensorRT

In today's increasingly digital age, enhancing video quality has become more important than ever. With the help of VSGAN, a repository dedicated to super resolution models and video frame interpolation, we aim to achieve the fastest inference possible while maintaining high-quality results. Before diving into this guide, it&

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Guide to Using the Kohya_ss Template with Runpod

Introduction: In this post, we will discuss the process of utilizing the Kohya_ss template with Runpod. The Kohya_ss template is designed for desktop CUDA and supports applications like Kohya_ss. We will provide a step-by-step guide to help you get started. It is recommended to use the NVIDIA

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Four Reasons To Set Up A Network Volume In the RunPod Secure Cloud

Network Storage is a new RunPod feature (currently in beta) that works with our Secure Cloud data center-hosted pods. Normally, volumes for pods are destroyed irrecoverably after you terminate the pod, but this allows storage to persist and even be reassigned to different pods if needed. Here are several reasons

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Ada Architecture Pods Are Here - How Do They Stack Up Against Ampere?

The Ada architecture is the latest architecture developed by Nvidia that is capable of achieving vastly improved performance on AI and HPC workloads compared to previous Nvidia GPU architectures. Ada also comes equipped with a new generation of Tensor Cores, which greatly accelerate matrix operations commonly used in deep learning

Text Generation

The Beginner's Guide to Textual Worldbuilding With Oobabooga and Pygmalion

Pygmalion is an unfiltered chatbot AI model that you can interact with to ask questions, talk to for fun, or even roleplay with. One of the best parts about Pygmalion is that it is capable of "learning" over time in that it will refer to its available output

Stable Diffusion

Unveiling Kandinsky 2.1: The Revolutionary AI-Powered Art Generator

Introduction: Artificial intelligence is transforming the world of digital art, and we at RunPod.io are excited to introduce the latest AI masterpiece, Kandinsky 2.1! This powerful model inherits the best practices from Dall-E 2 and Latent Diffusion while introducing innovative ideas to push the boundaries of AI-generated art.

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Spin up a Text Generation Pod with Vicuna And Experience a GPT-4 Rival

Why use Vicuna? The primary benefit of Vicuna is that it has a level of performance rivaled only by ChatGPT and Google Bard. The model has been tested across a wide variety of scenarios, including Fermi problems, roleplay scenarios, and math tasks, and a framework graded by GPT-4 showed that

Stable Diffusion

Using OpenPose to Annotate Poses Within Stable Diffusion

Describing poses in a text prompt, other than the most basic notation, can often feel like an exercise in frustration. "Sitting in an office chair" isn't too hard to work with, but when it comes to accurately describing things like raising arms in certain directions and

Stable Diffusion

Why Altering the Resolution in Stable Diffusion Gives Strange Results

Stable Diffusion was originally designed to create images that are exactly 512 by 512. It does let you create images that are up to 2048 by 2048 (GPU resources permitting). However, when you try, you are very likely to get results that appear to be fighting against your prompt. Why

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Hybridize Images With Image Mixer Before Running Through img2img

Stable Diffusion has a powerful feature (img2img) that allows you to generate images using another image as a prompt. However, it has a weakness in that you can only supply a single image to use in that prompt – so if you want to include facets of a group of images,

Runpod Platform

Avoid Errors By Selecting The Proper Resources For Your Pod

RunPod instances are billed at a rate commensurate with the resources given to them. Naturally, an A100 requires more infrastructure to power and support it than, say, an RTX 3070, which explains why the A100 is at a premium in comparison. While the speed of training and using models is

Text Generation

Setting up a ChatBot with the Oobabooga Text Generation WebUI template

In this post we'll walk through setting up a pod on RunPod using a template that will run Oobabooga's Text Generation WebUI with the Pygmalion 6B chatbot model, though it will also work with a number of other language models such as GPT-J 6B, OPT, GALACTICA,

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Guide for running Basaran an open-source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API

Introduction: Basaran is an open-source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API - Repo. It is a powerful tool that can help you generate text based on a given input. In this simple guide, we will show you how to run Basaran on Runpod using a predefined template. As a

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Using RunPod's DreamBooth Endpoint to Make Custom Generated Images

DreamBooth provides a great way to take a Stable Diffusion model and train it to include a specific new concept (maybe your dog or a friend) making it capable of generating AI images featuring that concept. In a previous post we walked through using RunPod's template to set

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Using the "RunPod Fast Stable Diffusion" template to create an instance for Dreambooth

Following up on the previous post, in this article we will walk through setting up a RunPod instance with the "RunPod Fast Stable Diffusion" template and using it to run Dreambooth with the bundled Jupyter Notebook. The first few steps are a repeat of the previous post, so

Stable Diffusion

Using the "RunPod Fast Stable Diffusion template" to create an instance for Stable Diffusion

⚠️Note: The Fast Stable Diffusuon pod template used in this blog doesn't currently exist. Please follow our more recent blog to get Stable Diffusion Set Up With ComfyUI. More blogs on Fast Stable Diffusion are in progress, sign up below to be notified! In this post we will

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How to Get Really Good Results with Dreambooth on RunPod

Ever wanted to start generating your own unique creations using your own custom dreambooth model, but didn't have any idea where to start or what settings to choose? Well, one of our users decided to put together this epically comprehensive guide by running a ton of tests on

Runpod Platform

How to Connect VSCode To RunPod

While working in a terminal window is sometimes good enough, it's much nicer to work within your IDE if you are doing interactive development. Fortunately, you can connect your VSCode IDE to your RunPod instance via SSH. This will allow you to edit files and code on your

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Get Awesomer Outputs From Dreambooth With Offset Noise!

TheLastBen recently updated our fast stable diffusion template with the offset noise functionality in dreambooth! To turn it on, start up the template and connect to the jupyter link. Then just flip the Offset_Noise variable to "True" and increase your total steps by 10-20% - that'

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Disco Diffusion on RunPod

AI is the latest frontier for artists, providing new opportunities for creativity and expression. While stable diffusion is the latest rage and is much faster, you can't beat the artistic aesthetic that comes out of good ol' DD. Disco Diffusion models are a great way to create

Stable Diffusion

How to use RunPod's Fast Stable Diffusion template

If you're interested in using the Fast Stable template, this blog post will guide you through the process. If you're looking for a more detailed post, here's an updated one that goes step by step through all the cells. First off, it's

APIs

Serverless | Create a Custom Basic API

RunPod's Serverless platform allows for the creation of API endpoints that automatically scale to meet demand. The tutorial guides you through creating a basic worker and turning it into an API endpoint on the RunPod serverless platform. For this tutorial, we will create an API endpoint that helps

APIs

Create a custom AUTOMATIC1111 serverless deployment with your custom model

Have you ever wanted to create your own serverless AUTOMATIC1111 endpoint with a custom model that can scale up and down? Now you can do so without much hassle by following this guide! Pre-requisites A computer (local or cloud) with the following: * docker installed * git installed * a relatively fast upload

APIs

Easily Run Invoke AI Stable Diffusion on RunPod

Ever wanted to try invoke ai's awesome stable diffusion infinite canvas out, but didn't want to go through the hassle of installing a bunch of stuff? Maybe you just don't have a local GPU that can run it fast enough? No worries, we'

Stable Diffusion

How to run Stable Diffusion with no fuss on RunPod

We've been hearing that a lot of people have been having trouble getting stable diffusion to work on cloud compute platforms. We now have a simple template that will let you get started with minimal fuss! If you need to know the basics of how to start a