lucidrains/big-sleep
A simple command line tool for text to image generation, using OpenAI's CLIP and a BigGAN. Technique was originally created by https://twitter.com/advadnoun observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
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Adoption not part of the score
2573 stars · 301 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Big Sleep is a Python command line tool that generates images from natural language text prompts by combining OpenAI's CLIP with a BigGAN generator. It wraps Ryan Murdock's technique into a simple one-line terminal command and a Python API.
Use cases
- generate images from text prompts
- create ai art from a phrase in the terminal
- text to image generation with clip and biggan
- dream up images using natural language
- programmatically generate images from text in python
When to choose
- you want a simple one-line CLI for CLIP+BigGAN text-to-image synthesis
- you want a small Python API to experiment with generative image art
- you have a GPU and want lightweight text-to-image without heavy diffusion models
When to avoid
- you need modern high-fidelity text-to-image like diffusion models (Stable Diffusion)
- you need production image generation at scale
- you need a maintained project - the last release was in early 2022
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
image-processing deep-learning cli artificial-intelligence deep-learning image-processing python cli cross-platform text-to-image clip biggan generative-art gan gpu
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/lucidrains/big-sleep · fetched 2026-08-28 · 53f7c288a8a9
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/big-sleep/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · f25aeec6134a
Member repositories
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