Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model
The model has 3B active parameters. We put the code, homepage, paper and model links here: - Code: https://github.com/bytedance/Lance - Homepage: https://lance-project.github.io/ - Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18678 - Model: https://huggingface.co/bytedance-research/Lance p.s. Lance is a research project, not a polished product. The model was trained using fewer than 128 GPUs.
In plain words
Lance is a machine learning model with 3 billion active parameters that generates and understands both images and video within a single system. Built by ByteDance researchers, it combines these capabilities in one model trained efficiently using fewer than 128 GPUs. The project includes open-source code, documentation, and the model weights available for download. Lance is positioned as a research project rather than a production-ready product.
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