👋 Hello, everyone! Cagliostro Lab DevRel here~

First of all, we would like to say hello to 2025! We wish everyone will have a great year ahead. And now, a note! Our second developer note is finally here with some exciting news. But first, let’s take a look back on 2024, as a form of appreciation to everyone, developers and users alike. Let’s start, shall we?😉

2024: When It All Began#

”Forming up a group for local AI enthusiasts”, this idea sparked by the co-founders dated back in 2023. It took several attempts to gather up the masses, but to no avail. But then, our co-founder spearheaded the Animagine-XL project and asked around his friends and fellow AI enthusiasts to aid him on fine-tuning and beta testing process for Animagine-XL v3.0. This group would be soon called Cagliostro Research Lab. Cagliostro Research Lab was officially started operating as an AI dev team in January 10th, 2024. This marked by the release of Animagine-XL v3.0, our first model together as a team. This also means that today is officially a year of our voyage! 🥳🎉

When the AI community grew larger, so did our team. Just in a few months, we’re grateful for having two additional model trainers, Kayfaahaaruku and Raelina, on our team. Not only that, we also managed to recruit many data curators over the span of 2024 in order to improve the efficiency of curating process, and in turn, improve the overall quality of the models.

As the result, let’s see how the “CagliostroLab’s wrapped” looks like~🤔

CagliostroLab’s 2024 in a Nutshell#

Before we are talking about stats here, we would like to extend our gratitude to everyone for using both Animagine-XL v3.0 and Animagine-XL v3.1. With all the sparked interest from the community, Animagine-XL (specifically v3.0) could achieve the top #1 trending in Huggingface at one point. This achievement alone truly makes us more motivated to deliver the best we can for the community. Within 2024, both Animagine-XL v3.0 and v3.1 have garnered the following, across all popular AI platforms:

Again, we are thankful for everyone’s excitement and interest on what we have been working on. Of course, we can’t leave the excitement alone without bringing in our “next step” that we were cooking over past few months~ 👀

“The Next Step”#

We are proudly presenting to you our next models which will coming out soon! Now, what comes to mind upon seeing this number below? Does it bring up an excitement on what’s about to be revealed?~

Generated using MidJourney

Of course, you guessed that right! Our long-running series of model based on SDXL is finally getting its new iteration: Animagine-XL v4, or as we call it “Anim4gine”. After a year worth of efforts, we are aiming to release this model later this month. So, hopefully all things goes well!

Kaori Miyazono from Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso.

“noctchill” idol group from Idolm@ster Shiny Colors

Hitori Gotoh from Bocchi the Rock!

March 7th from Honkai: Star Rail

Next up, as we planned back in our previous note, we are going to release our new model series based on SD 3.5, Animaestro! Do note that the following images are generated from the model’s pre-alpha test, so it doesn’t reflect on the final result. It will come out after Anim4gine, around Q1 to Q2 this year, so please bear with us! 🙏

Animaestro_sample #1

Animaestro_sample #2

Afterwords#

Thank you for your attention. As always, we are truly thankful for everyone’s support and kindness. Hope 2025 is going to be an awesome year for us all. And of course, hope you’ll like the models when it drops eventually!

Cheers~