Update: the discord server members / friends of Mobius are brigading the comments.

See the model card: https://huggingface.co/Corcelio/mobius

It’s a non-commercial model they want people to pay to use through their API, and won’t allow anyone else to publish the weights, even though they tout the ability to finetune it in the hype post.

Looking deeper into things and it’s using Bittensor to “decentralise AI production”, and it’s using blockchain. Another crypto scam.

It’s quite odd. as a researcher, the claims to cut down on training cost by 2/3rds really stuck out to me, as I would also like to benefit from this advancement. but when you look at how they supposedly achieved this, it’s just another SDXL finetune with 25 million images.

A fun gem from the model card:

• highly suggested to preappenmed watermark to all negatives and keep negatives simple such as “watermark” or “worst, watermark”

A model without any bias shouldn’t really need “watermark” in the negative prompt.

Here’s the license text from the model card:

Mobius is released under a custom license that governs its usage and distribution rights:

Non-commercial use: The model is fully open and available for any non-commercial use. Researchers, students, and enthusiasts are encouraged to explore, modify, and build upon the model freely, as long as they do not use it for commercial purposes.