Hotshot – 4 Person Team Builds a State of the Art Video Model
Hi HN! We're proud to share Hotshot, a large-scale diffusion transformer model for text-to-video generation that we built with just a 4-person team. You can try it today in beta at https://hotshot.co, with 2 free generations per day. The model generates 5 seconds of 720p video from text prompts. It excels at prompt alignment, and consistency. It also excels at generating people, animals, and nature. In blind tests with 100 users, Hotshot generations were preferred to Runway ML 60% of the time. Hotshot generations were preferred to Luma 80% of the time. Overall, users preferred…
Hotshot – 4 Person Team Builds a State of the Art Video Model launched on August 19, 2024 with 26 votes, #889 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Hotshot is a text-to-video generation model that creates 5-second videos in 720p from text prompts. Built by a 4-person team, it uses a diffusion transformer approach trained on 600 million video clips and 1 billion images. The model emphasizes prompt alignment, consistency, and realistic generation of people, animals, and nature scenes. Users can try it in beta at hotshot.co with 2 free generations daily. It is designed for anyone looking to create video content from text descriptions.
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Hi HN! We're proud to share Hotshot, a large-scale diffusion transformer model for text-to-video generation that we built with just a 4-person team. You can try it today in beta at https://hotshot.co, with 2 free generations per day. The model generates 5 seconds of 720p video from text prompts. It excels…
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