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Illustrious-xl-early-release

Illustrious-xl-early-release is an open-weight image model from OnomaAIResearch, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What Illustrious-xl-early-release is

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Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

MakerOnomaAIResearch
TypeImage models
Parameters (lead)2.6B
Variants1
Runs withdiffusers
Based onKBlueLeaf/kohaku-xl-beta5
Released2024-09-20
Popularity77k downloads / month
Likes429
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How image models work

Text promptwhat to makeText encoderunderstands itDiffusion stepsdenoise to pixelsImagePNG / JPEGA diffusion model starts from noise and denoises it, guided by your prompt, into a finished image.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Illustrious-xl-early-release-v02.6BBF16~5.9 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys illustrious-xl-early-release for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (illustrious-xl-early-release below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"illustrious-xl-early-release","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

diffusers safetensors text-to-image en endpoints_compatible diffusers:StableDiffusionXLPipeline

Papers

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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