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May 2022Model Release
CogVideoTsinghua University / BAAI

The first open-source pretrained text-to-video model. 9.4 billion parameters generating 4-second clips at low resolution. Blurry, dreamlike, barely coherent... but it works. For the first time, anyone with a GPU could type words and get moving pictures back. The quality was terrible by any standard. But the concept was proven: machines could imagine motion from language. Everything that followed started here.

480x480 · 4s · 9.4B