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Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

AI-generated illustration, not actual output from this listing

What they did

Lance, from ByteDance, is a single model for both generating and understanding images and video, with code, paper and weights linked.

How it went

The poster says it has 3B active parameters. The HN post drew 64 points.

Worth knowing

  • Price: unknown
  • Status: sourced. We have not run this ourselves yet (no "Tested" badge).
  • Quality bar (computed by code): 4/5 (primary source ✓, reproducible ✗, new ✓, example output ✓, safe ✓)
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