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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 4mo agoNice work. Wish they had picked another name given how popular lance/lancedb is.
- asadm 4mo agolast dance for lance vance!
- cleardusk 4mo ago:D
- CrzyLngPwd 4mo ago[flagged]
- menno-sh 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo agoGreat quality, forked and going to try
- bguberfain 4mo agoAny plans to port to sglang or vLLM?
- cleardusk 4mo agovllm-omni support is on the way : )
- vaporaviatorlab 4mo ago[flagged]
- embedding-shape 4mo 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 4mo agoWhat’s SOTA for video understanding? AFAIK most video search is powered by transcription and not the actual video. This seems impressive.