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Venice

Changelog

July 2025

Models

3 changes

Text models1

  • Venice Uncensored

    Updated to version 1.1 with better tone control, improved ethical reasoning using consequentialist approaches, and fixes for inappropriate responses to minimal inputs.

    All users

Deprecated2

  • DeepSeek Coder
  • Qwen Coder

Features

15 changes

Chat4

  • System Prompt Indicator

    A notification now appears above the chat box when custom system prompts are enabled.

  • Thumbs Up/Down Ratings

    Rating buttons have been added to responses to help gauge user sentiment on model performance over time.

  • Character Listings

    Updated character listings to prioritize and present highly rated characters.

  • Simple Mode Reliability

    Improved reliability of the simple mode feature in chat by ensuring the latest selected setting is always used, preventing issues from outdated values during asynchronous operations.

Image, video and audio3

  • Browse Social Feed

    Users can access the Social Feed via the left sidebar to scroll through published images, upvote or downvote posts, save them to their collection, and copy prompts when available.

  • Image Editing (Inpainting)

    Image editing (inpainting) is back for Pro users, powered by Flux Kontext DEV with natural language understanding. Users can upload an image or generate one first, then describe edits in plain language.

    Pro users
  • Share on Social Feed

    Added a 'Share on Social Feed' icon below images to let users create a post, add tags, and optionally share the prompt used to generate the image.

Account and settings2

  • Subscription Management

    Subscription management pages have been improved with additional tool tips and user surveys.

  • Subscription Management

    Migrated subscription management into the app, moving away from Stripe’s hosted portal to an in-app system.

Wallet and payments1

  • VCU to Diem Rename

    All references to Venice Compute Units (VCU) have been updated to Diem.

General5

  • Follow Users

    Users can now follow creators from their posts. A 'Following' tab shows a personalized feed of followed users, and a 'Saved' tab displays bookmarked images.

  • Notification Bell

    A notification bell has been added to the Venice Social Feed to indicate when other users like posted content.

  • Social Feed

    Launched a new Social Feed feature that allows users to share images they create to a public feed. Other users can browse, upvote, downvote, save, and copy prompts from shared posts.

  • Tokenized Diem

    Diem units will be tokenized and mintable by VVV holders, enabling a compute marketplace. Initially, 1 Diem equals $1 of credit per day.

  • Loading Keys Performance

    Improved performance of the Venice 'Loading' keys.

API

3 changes
  • Edit Image API

    Launched the edit image (in-painting) API, allowing users to modify specific regions of an image programmatically. API documentation has been updated.

  • Image URL Support

    Added support for image URLs in the edit image API, enabling users to reference remote images directly.

  • API Key Details Endpoint

    An API key details endpoint has been added. API documentation has been updated accordingly.

Fixes

2 changes
  • EXIF Data Stripping

    Fixed a bug that was causing EXIF data to be stripped out when downloading images via the contextual menu.

    Studio
  • Duplicate Transaction Toasts

    Fixed an issue causing duplicate toasts to be displayed when a transaction fails.

    Wallet

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