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Latestrobbyant1.0
robbyantText → Video

LingBot-Video puts a 30B MoE behind embodied AI video

A DiT-based mixture-of-experts model activates just 3B parameters per step and ships under an Apache 2.0 license.

Jul 8, 2026
NotableApache 2.0
LingBot-Video 30B-A3B

A new text-to-video model called LingBot-Video 30B-A3B has landed on Hugging Face, aimed squarely at embodied intelligence rather than general-purpose clip generation. The release pairs a diffusion transformer (DiT) backbone with a mixture-of-experts design, and it arrives under a permissive Apache 2.0 license (model card).

The naming tells the architectural story. Of its roughly 30 billion total parameters, only about 3 billion are active on any given forward pass — the "A3B" suffix. That sparse-activation approach is meant to give the model the capacity of a large network while keeping inference costs closer to those of a much smaller one.

Why it matters

Most open video models chase cinematic prompts and short social clips. Framing this one as a pretraining model for embodied intelligence points at a different use case: generating and predicting visual sequences that robots and agents can learn from, where a world model that anticipates how a scene unfolds is more useful than a polished trailer.

A few things stand out about this release:

  • Sparse compute: 30B total parameters with only 3B active, via MoE routing.
  • DiT foundation: a diffusion transformer backbone, now the dominant design for high-quality video generation.
  • Open license: Apache 2.0 permits commercial use and fine-tuning without downstream restrictions.

Several practical details — resolution, frame rate, and maximum clip duration — aren't specified in the release record, so teams evaluating LingBot-Video for robotics or simulation work will want to test those limits directly. As a version 1.0 initial release, it establishes a baseline that later checkpoints can build on.

Sources

  • robbyant/lingbot-video-moe-30b-a3b

    Hugging Face

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OlderNVIDIA's Audex Unifies Audio Understanding and SpeechNVIDIA · Any-to-Any · 4 months agoNewerWan-Dancer-14B turns still images into dance videosQwen · Alibaba · Image → Video · 4 months ago

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Specs

Parameters30B · MoE
ArchitectureLingBotVideoPipeline
LicenseAPACHE-2.0
Downloads13.9K
Likes132

Can you run it?

Runs on a 32 GB GPU at FP8.

  • BF16 (as published)

    80 GB GPU (A100 / H100) · 128 GB Mac Studio

    61 GB
  • FP8

    32 GB GPU (RTX 5090) · 48 GB Mac

    31 GB
Your machine
  • Mixture-of-experts: all 30B parameters must be resident even though only 3B are active per token — active count affects speed, not memory.
  • Precision not published; assuming 16-bit (BF16) weights.
  • Parameter count is an editorial estimate — no weights metadata on Hugging Face.
  • Covers the published checkpoint; text encoders and VAE loaded alongside may add a few GB (many runtimes offload them to CPU).

Estimated from the parameter count. Assumes an 8K context and ~1 GB runtime overhead; actual needs vary. How we estimate


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