# JD.com Enters Open-Source AI Video with JoyAI-Echo

> The Chinese e-commerce giant has released a new model capable of generating long-form, multi-shot videos with synchronized audio from text prompts.

Published by The Open Weights on Jun 2, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/joyai-echo-sgij

## Key facts

- Company: JD
- Model: JoyAI-Echo
- Version: 1
- Category: Text → Video
- Modalities: Text → Video
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Architecture: joyai-echo
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 38 GB
- Resolution: 1280×736
- Significance: minor
- Published: 2026-06-02
- Last verified: 2026-06-17
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/jdopensource/JoyAI-Echo
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/joyai-echo-sgij

Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has released JoyAI-Echo, a new open-source model for generating video from text. The release marks the company's entry into the competitive field of open-source generative video, adding another major corporate player to the ecosystem.

Unlike many models that produce short, single clips, JoyAI-Echo is designed for creating "long-form, multi-shot" videos. This allows it to generate a sequence of related scenes that can form a more coherent narrative. Crucially, the model also generates synchronized audio to accompany the video, a feature still emerging in many open video tools.

The model is based on the LTX-Video research framework, which focuses on generating temporally consistent and longer video sequences. The full model, code, and weights are available on its [Hugging Face repository](https://huggingface.co/jdopensource/JoyAI-Echo) under an Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use.

JoyAI-Echo’s release highlights the growing trend of moving beyond simple clip generation toward more practical, narrative-driven video creation. Its focus on multi-shot storytelling and integrated audio pushes the capabilities of what's available in open-source AI, offering a new tool for creators and researchers exploring long-form generative content.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/jdopensource/JoyAI-Echo)

## Sources

- [jdopensource/JoyAI-Echo](https://huggingface.co/jdopensource/JoyAI-Echo) — Hugging Face, Jun 2, 2026

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