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

ccleardusk 1 day ago 14 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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embedding-shape•about 19 hours ago

Video 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•about 16 hours ago

What’s SOTA for video understanding? AFAIK most video search is powered by transcription and not the actual video. This seems impressive.

bguberfain•about 20 hours ago

Any plans to port to sglang or vLLM?

nkvdev•about 21 hours ago

Great quality, forked and going to try

Tsarp•about 23 hours ago

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

popalchemist•about 22 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 21 hours 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•about 20 hours ago

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

asadm•about 23 hours ago

last dance for lance vance!

cleardusk•about 22 hours ago