NovelAI

Driven by AI, painlessly construct unique stories, thrilling tales, seductive romances, or just fool around. Anything goes!


NovelAI

Website
novelai.net
Model
Various
Price
$10–25
Trial
100 Actions
Censorship?
None for text. Photorealism prohibited in image generation

NovelAI is a subscription-based dynamic storyteller hosting text models specialized for generating stories, and image models specialized for non-photorealistic efforts. It's run by a Turk.

Features

Tiers

NovelAI has a free trial and offers three subscription tiers.

The free trial works like this:

Before registration, you are allowed 50 actions to generate AI responses with.
Once they run out, you can register an account with the service and verify your email to net a further 50 actions.
You can't generate AI responses once you've run out of these actions. The next step would be to select a tier to subscribe to.

The three subscription tiers are as follows:

$25 Opus Tier - 8192 Token Context Window, 600 Characters Max Output Length, 10,000 Anlas for image generation and custom modules
- Access to Krake (A legacy model no one recommends you use)
- New models and experimental features first.
- Anlas isn't used when generating images images up to 640x640 pixels and up to 28 steps.
$15 Scroll Tier - 6144 Token Context Window, 400 Max Output Token Length, 500 Anlas per month
$10 Tablet Tier - 3072 Token Context Window, 400 Max Output Token Length, 500 Anlas per month

Scroll tier is the best to go for if you're starting the service. The double length context tokens make a huge difference in play.

Monthly Anlas expire when subscriptions do, and do not carry over between months. However, NovelAI also comes with the ability to purchase perpetual Anlas:

$3.79 for 2,000 steps
$6.49 for 5,000 steps
$10 for 10,000 steps

The Anlas you purchase carries over across months, and persists even when your subscription is cancelled.

Models

NovelAI, as of August 2023, offers two models for use and several legacy text models.

Model	Language Model	Notes
Clio	3B NovelAI-LM	Custom in-house proof-of-concept model. No module support.
Kayra	13B NovelAI-LM	Premiere in-house model. Supports V2 Modules, but custom module training isn't possible (yet)

Retired models:

Model	Language Model	Notes
Calliope	2.7B GPT-Neo	Profound interest in sweaty balls.
Krake	20B GPT-NeoX	Currently Opus only. No custom modules. Up to 2048 Context length.
Euterpe	13B Fairseq	Up to 2048 Context length.
Sigurd	6B GPT-J	Up to 2048 Context length.
Genji	6B GPT-J	Trained in Japanese. Up to 2048 Context length.

Fine-tuning

While the specifics have yet to be revealed by any member of the team, but we do have a general understanding. Kurumuz and his colleagues stated in the early days of the project that they planned to work primarily with books, light novels, and high-quality novellas for their dataset.

The first version of the set was used to fine-tune Calliope, then Sigurd (5% at V1, then completed at V2), but there was an oversight regarding dialogue quality, which necessitated a dataset pruning to remove offending stories. After that, they fine-tuned again, resulting in Sigurd V3. Finally, they expanded and improved the dataset to culminate in the 4th iteration of Sigurd. It's believed that the dataset is now >10 GB in size, though new text is constantly added to the dataset by the fine-tuning team.

Notable Figures

kurumuz

kurumuz—or Turk when his backend is failing—is the lead developer of NovelAI and CEO of its company Anlatan. He was an anon who stepped up immediately after Latitude confirmed their regex filter chicanery to create a viable alternative.

finetuneanon

finetuneanon is another veteran of the general who is now on the AI development team for NovelAI. He is best known for his prior work on GPT-2.7B, creating the horni fine-tuned models, one of which being a literotica dataset and the other being a light novel dataset. Granted, they weren't all that great, but he has since acknowledged that it could have been done better.

Aini

Aini is the community manager for NovelAI. She was a regular in the /aidg/ threads who would occasionally drawfag. Aini uses Aini !SimpNR..6. as her tripcode.

TabloidA

Designer responsible for the stellar NovelAI user interface. Occasionally posts on the thread with a pepe avatar. Hates the old logo.

Chris

Likes feet; may send you free Opus keys if you email him saucy foot pictures. Made a NAI Easter-egg, discoverable by clicking the logo a bunch of times.

ght901

Programmer. Responsible for getting the Context to work.

External Links

Main website

Separate Wiki exclusive for NovelAI knowledge

Subreddit

NovelAI pages
Pages	Biases (collection) - Cards (creation) - Hypebot - Lorebooks (collection) - Modules (creation) - NovelAI - Presets - Text to Speech Seeds - Themes (creation)

Storytellers
Webapps	AI Dungeon - BunCho - Chibi.ai - Dreamily - Holo AI † - NovelAI - Saga - Sudowrite
Local clients	AI Dungeon (Classic) - GodAI - KoboldAI
Other pages	Storyteller Alternatives