A reflection on XAVIER (and looking to the future)

Typing this up from my phone during an unexpected window of downtime on what I'm expecting to be a busy work week, so I'll keep my thoughts somewhat brief...

When I first released XAVIER, if you would have told me it would build up some degree of popularity I'd have probably politely laughed you off.

However, what has transpired in reality is legitimately amazing.

I've gotten high praise about this model from creators I'd been a fan of long before I ever had an inkling of a idea of what I was doing in terms of prompting, and I've heard rumblings about it being the talk of the town in AI scenes I'd never even known existed.

To this day, XAVIER continues a general upward trend in utilization and exposure - in fact, it's managed over 10,000 on-site generations in a single day, and that's not even considering the local generation volume I have no way of knowing (nor its utilization on other platforms it may have found its way to).

I don't say all this to boast or be vain; but to recognize the power of individual people, and express that I am truly humbled and thankful for the support shown in regard to it!

Now, what of the future? My personal perspective on XAVIER is that it is a finished product, though this primarily stems from the fact it was never intended to be more than a random experiment of mine.

But I don't believe that perspective should limit forward potential of this model, so I am asking something a bit unorthodox to readers.

If you would like your own checkpoints and/or loras to be considered for what could perhaps become a second step for XAVIER, please comment and let me know. That could be stating very specific resources, or just a general invitation to check out your profile.

Any engagement on that front would be highly appreciated, but even if you've just read my article and moved on I am highly appreciative of that too.

Thank you for reading. In the words of the great Tigger, "TTFN, ta ta for now".