Nai.ckpt -

: The file is part of the NovelAI image generation leak that surfaced around late 2022. It was highly sought after because it outperformed most early Stable Diffusion models in rendering detailed anime aesthetics.

: Place the .ckpt file in the models/Stable-diffusion directory of your installation. nai.ckpt

New (suspected) NAI model leak - AnythingV3.0 and VAE for it : The file is part of the NovelAI

: The standard nai.ckpt file is approximately 4.27 GB . It is often distributed alongside a specialized VAE (Variational Autoencoder) file, which is necessary to prevent generated images from looking washed out or gray. How to Use nai.ckpt nai.ckpt