Zhen Lu

Zhen Is the CEO and cofounder of Runpod

Runpod's $20MM Milestone: Fueling Our Vision, Empowering Our Team

Runpod has raised $20MM in a funding round led by Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital, fueling our mission to power AI/ML cloud computing and strengthen our team.
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Product Updates

Kohya LoRA on Runpod

SECourses breaks down how to use LoRA with Kohya on Runpod in a beginner-friendly tutorial. Learn how to apply lightweight LoRA files to existing models for powerful generative art results—no full model retraining required.
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Learn AI

DreamBooth on Runpod: How to Train for Great Results

DreamBooth can generate amazing, highly personalized images—but only if you train it well. In this post, Zhen walks through best practices for getting the most out of DreamBooth on Runpod. Learn what datasets to use, when to use regularization, how many steps are ideal, and which hyperparameters to tweak.
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AI Workloads

Get Better DreamBooth Results Using Offset Noise

DreamBooth tends to overfit and produce weird artifacts—like extra heads or multiple faces—especially with only a few training images. One trick to improve output quality is adding offset noise during training. This short guide explains what offset noise is, why it helps, and how to apply it to get sharper, more realistic results from your DreamBooth models.
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AI Workloads

Create a Custom AUTOMATIC1111 Serverless Deployment with Your Model

Learn how to create your own scalable serverless endpoint using AUTOMATIC1111 and a custom model. This step-by-step guide walks you through customizing the worker repo, modifying the Dockerfile, and configuring your serverless API deployment—from local build to Docker Hub push.
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AI Infrastructure

Run Invoke AI with Stable Diffusion on Runpod

This post walks you through launching Invoke AI on Runpod using an easy-deploy template. If you don’t have a powerful local GPU—or don’t want to deal with dependency headaches—you can use this guide to spin up a cloud-hosted version of Invoke’s infinite canvas UI with just a few clicks.
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AI Workloads

Deploy a Stable Diffusion UI on Runpod in Minutes

This post shows how to deploy a full Stable Diffusion UI using a community-created template on Runpod. With just a few clicks, you can generate high-quality images through a browser interface—no setup or coding required.
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AI Workloads

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