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disco-diffusion

A frankensteinian amalgamation of notebooks, models and techniques for the generation of AI Art and Animations.

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About disco-diffusion

A community-maintained collection of Jupyter notebooks, models, and techniques for generating AI art and animations using diffusion models. It combines multiple approaches into a single workflow for creating visual outputs.

Best for

Developers and artists comfortable with Jupyter notebooks who want to explore diffusion-based art generation

Use cases

  • Generating high-quality AI art from text prompts
  • Creating animated sequences with diffusion models
  • Experimenting with different model architectures and techniques

Notes

7,411 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2023-07-09.

Pros

  • Open source with a large community (7,411 stars)
  • Combines multiple state-of-the-art techniques in one place
  • Produces visually impressive results

Cons

  • Requires significant technical expertise to set up and run
  • Resource-intensive, needing powerful GPUs and memory
  • Not a polished product; more of a research toolkit

Key facts

What we have checked

Latest version
5.4.0 (released 24 June 2022)
Checked GitHub
GitHub stars
7,394
Checked github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438

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Stars and usage

How disco-diffusion is growing

GitHub stars

7,411 to 7,394

stars. 12 July 2026 to 26 Sept 2026, 2 readings.

Source: github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438. Checked .

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  • GitHubOfficial

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Changelog

What changed

  1. Released 5.4.0

    Source: GitHub

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