[aabdi]

SOTA open source model for image and vid generation. Beats all others but is too big to run on most people’s computers at 64b params.

Still impressive nonetheless given its artificially generated training sets.

Beats nano banana 1 but not yet competitive with 2 or seedance2, grok imagine,etc.

[mrandish]

It's sadly ironic I no longer even bother clicking on HN posts that are obvious product announcements from large corporations and instead just go to the replies. Corporate product announcements somehow fail to even clearly communicate the basic facts you did in your first nine words.

One nuance that's missing from your summary is it's a world model specifically targeted to be useful for training robotic and autonomous vehicle AIs. So not really intended to be a direct competitor to Nano Banana or Seedance. While it can do straight image and video gen, its special sauce is providing more physics data and harnesses for AI training scenarios.

[xnx]

Great summary. I find image and video generation models are a more understandable reality check for how close local models are to frontier models.