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Show HN: 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 https://github.com/bytedance/Lance
- Homepage: https://lance-project.github.io/ https://lance-project.github.io/
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18678 https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18678
- Model: https://huggingface.co/bytedance-research/Lance 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.
- Tsarp 6mo agoNice work. Wish they had picked another name given how popular lance/lancedb is.
- asadm 6mo agolast dance for lance vance!
- cleardusk 6mo ago:D
- CrzyLngPwd 6mo ago[flagged]
- menno-sh 6mo agoNot that surprising if the reason you have virtually unlimited compute and programming resources is that you work at the leading short form video app company. They could also have chosen nót to open source it.
- neosat 6mo agoDo you find the video understanding work there also to be 'silly little slop', or did you only look at the gifs on the page and not read about the understanding work in a 3B model? This is not ground-breaking by any means, but achieving this in a 3B model and sharing the approach + weights advances engineering and certainly more contribution that 'silly little slop videos' imo.
- popalchemist 6mo agoSeems like the video output is crippled. Resolution is low (720 or so), as is the frame rate. The samples are shown up-scaled and frame-interpolated. Why do that? Seems strange to be building sub-hd resolution video models in 2026.
- nkvdev 6mo agoGreat quality, forked and going to try
- bguberfain 6mo agoAny plans to port to sglang or vLLM?
- cleardusk 6mo agovllm-omni support is on the way : )
- vaporaviatorlab 6mo ago[flagged]
- embedding-shape 6mo agoVideo understanding is kind of new, especially if done well, and hopefully working well with UI and UX, that'd be great. Current agents already struggle a bit with 2D space with normal screenshots of unconventional UIs, wonder if this model would do better with actual recordings of navigating and using applications, feels like it could help a bunch with understanding UX at least hopefully. Will be fun to play around with :)
- wxw 6mo agoWhat’s SOTA for video understanding? AFAIK most video search is powered by transcription and not the actual video. This seems impressive.