Founder and CEO of Civitai, the largest community of open-source AI artists.
Boise, ID
Joined April 2007
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📹 Panel Project Odyssey with Matty Shimura, King Willonius, James Gerde, Nik Kleverov and Justin Maier at #UpscaleConf 2025 - The new AI Film Creative Stack
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[Project Name: Origin, Meaning & Humor]
The name CivitAI comes from the Latin word Civitas, meaning community. It reflects the platform's goal of fostering a collaborative space for AI creativity.
| “What if we have this thing be an AI community?”
When the team introduced the logo, the AI part was highlighted in blue, leading users to read the name as Civit AI.
| “Honestly, I love it too, because ‘Civit’ is easier to say than ‘Civitai’. I honestly don’t care which way they say it.”
Some users associated the name with the civet animal — a Southeast Asian mammal known for producing expensive coffee via digestion.
|“The civet animal… they poop stuff out and they use the seeds to make special coffee.”
|“Poop equals gold.”
@JustMaier expanded the metaphor:
|“The whole way a model works is it ingests… and outputs very special content. Like the civet animals create special coffee beans.”
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@JustMaier is scaling @HelloCivitai into the world’s leading platform for generative AI creators.
He’s sharing the journey and the vision at Upscale Conf SF.
📍 May 20–21 | SFJAZZZ
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This week, @JustMaier joins @WhatTheLJW @devrelius to talk about the community of open-source AI artists he’s building at @HelloCivitai 🌐
Catch it tomorrow:
Apr 24, 9:00 am PST • 12:00 pm EST
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The cofounders of @HelloCivitai, @JustMaier and @MfHulker, noticed a problem.
Creators were making custom models and posting them disparately on forums, but "they'd just kind of vanish after that," Maier says.
That's when the idea to create a place for them to share their models and tools was born.
The cofounders share their journey from a niche concept to a thriving platform with millions of users👇
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🚀Flux is officially available in our onsite generator🚀
To celebrate, we’ve curated a little visual masterpiece featuring some of the most popular Flux images on the website so far!
👀 Don’t have the GPU power to run Flux locally!? Have no fear, get your Flux on here 👇🏽
civitai.com/models/618692/fl…
Animated using @LumaLabsAI DreamMachine 👾
Sound on 🔊 😉
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At @a16z, we're big believers in the future of AI art.
We couldn't be more excited to share a recap of our first artist retreat hosted last month in NYC.
So grateful to all of the creatives and companies who spent time with us. Hear from them 👇
Excited to see what this new process can do for the indie film scene.
So grateful to have helped with the AI VFX on this collaboration with actress TheOneShu and director Quinn Halleck! The footage was shot on green screen at a studio in LA and sent over to me and VFX supervisor Gavin Bedford. I helped develop the pipeline for adding backgrounds (a mix of 3D and AI placeholders) and applying different style transfers to composite shots. Final cut of the video in the comments. Special thanks to Boxfort.tv for producing and Tool for advising!
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NEW: In an exclusive interview, @a16z-backed @HelloCivitai founder @JustMaier championed open source AI models & communities, and pushed back on reports his site is rife with NSFW content and deepfakes.
Read here: ⬇️ venturebeat.com/ai/civitai-f…
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Learn more about the journey of our CEO and Co-Founder, @JustMaier, and the origins of Civitai 🙌
#Civitai #StableDiffusion #SDXL #AIArt
I love how ai video gen is developing.
civitai.com/images/2582218
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Here is a little something we put together last night. It really is amazing what AI and all of these tools on the video side can do when you start to incorporate traditional vfx tools like After Effects with them!
What’s everyone rendering this weekend? 🔊👾
Original Video: @polyspheric
#civitai
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A.I. won't replace humans, but the people who refuse to collaborate with A.I. will be replaced by the ones who don't.
It's a productivity tool, not a replacement for creativity. – at Los Angeles, CA
We're starting a large greenfield project for our biggest client, Microsoft, and we're in need of an expert-level React developer/architect to help us lay a strong foundation. DM me if you're interested!
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Bevry is now live with @balupton & @JustMaier discussing the paper
Is the First Amendment Obsolete? by Tim Wu @superwuster
youtu.be/Cp6k_iqd2qE