Mochi 1 is an open-source video generation model developed by Genmo. It allows users to generate high-fidelity videos from text descriptions with exceptional motion quality and precise prompt adherence.
Mochi 1 is now available for anyone to try through its hosted playground. Additionally, the model’s weights and architecture are accessible on HuggingFace, which enables developers and researchers to further customize and experiment with the tool.
Feature List
- Open-source model available under Apache 2.0 license
- High-fidelity motion generation
- Strong prompt adherence
- Free web-based playground for testing
- 480p resolution (with HD planned)
- Up to 5.4-second video duration
- Focus on photorealistic video generation
Preview
Use Cases
- Concept Visualization: Quickly create video visualizations for storyboards, film projects, or product demos. For example, generate a short clip showcasing a new product feature in action.
- Creative Exploration: Experiment with different prompts and artistic styles to discover unique visual narratives. Generate abstract animations or surreal scenes.
- Content Creation: Produce short video content for social media, websites, or educational purposes. Create a quick explainer video or a visually engaging social media post.
- Synthetic Data Generation: Generate synthetic video data to train other machine learning models, particularly in areas like robotics and autonomous vehicles.
- Accessibility: Create video content from text descriptions, offering a potential tool for individuals with visual impairments.
How it Works
Mochi 1 utilizes a 10 billion parameter diffusion model based on a novel Asymmetric Diffusion Transformer (AsymmDiT) architecture. This architecture efficiently processes text prompts and compressed video data, prioritizing visual reasoning. It employs a single T5-XXL language model for prompt encoding and features 3D attention with rotary positional embeddings. A custom video VAE compresses video data, making the model more efficient.
Pros
- Free and open-source, allowing community development and modification.
- Offers strong prompt adherence, resulting in videos that closely match the text input.
- Generates realistic and fluid motion, surpassing the capabilities of many other open-source models.
- Provides a free playground for experimentation and testing.
Cons
- Current resolution limited to 480p.
- Can exhibit minor distortions in scenes with extreme motion.
- Not optimized for animated or non-photorealistic styles.
- Maximum video duration is relatively short.
Pricing
Mochi 1 offers a free tier with limited video generation capabilities. Paid plans (Lite and Standard) offer increased video generation limits, watermark removal, commercial usage rights, and priority access to new features and models.
- Free: Up to 4 videos every 6 hours, 30 videos monthly, watermarked.
- Lite: $8/month, up to 8 videos every 6 hours, 80 videos monthly, no watermark, commercial use.
- Standard: $24/month, up to 32 videos every 6 hours, 180 videos monthly, no watermark, commercial use, priority features and support.
Genmo’s Mission and Future Vision
Genmo’s long-term mission is to unlock the creative potential of artificial general intelligence by building tools that push the boundaries of what AI can achieve. Mochi 1 is part of their broader goal to develop world simulators capable of imagining anything, from realistic to impossible scenarios.
Future updates include the release of Mochi 1 HD, which will support 720p video generation and even smoother motion dynamics. Genmo also plans to introduce image-to-video capabilities, giving users more precise control over their outputs and expanding creative possibilities.
