Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

ccleardusk about 5 hours ago 13 commentsRead Article on github.com

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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.

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bguberfain•44 minutes ago

Any plans to port to sglang or vLLM?

nkvdev•about 1 hour ago

Great quality, forked and going to try

popalchemist•about 2 hours ago

Seems 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.

jadbox•about 1 hour ago

Sure, but again, it's a micro 3B model. Perhaps it can't be used for general video work, but it might be able to do basic edits like remove an object from a table in a shot.

MattRix•40 minutes ago

It’s not a micro model at all, it requires 40gb of VRAM. The 3B is just the active parameters.

Tsarp•about 4 hours ago

Nice work. Wish they had picked another name given how popular lance/lancedb is.

CrzyLngPwd•about 3 hours ago

Imagine having virtually unlimited compute and programming resources, and silly little slop videos is the result.

Fabulous.

menno-sh•about 2 hours ago

Not 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•about 1 hour ago

Do 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.

MattRix•39 minutes ago

It’s not a 3B model, it has 3B active parameters. The full model is much larger.

neosat•8 minutes ago

That's true, I should have mentioned active. Actual params are closer to 12B-14B likely, given the 40GB VRAM usage.

asadm•about 4 hours ago

last dance for lance vance!

cleardusk•about 3 hours ago