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MeituanText → Video

Meituan Releases Open-Source LongCat-Video Model

The Chinese tech giant has released a new MIT-licensed model capable of generating video from text, images, or by continuing existing clips.

Oct 24, 2025
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LongCat-Video

Meituan, a major Chinese technology company, has entered the open-source video generation space with the release of LongCat-Video. The new model is available on Hugging Face with a permissive MIT license, allowing for broad use and modification.

LongCat-Video is a versatile diffusion model that creates short video clips from a variety of inputs. Its release adds another strong contender to the rapidly evolving field of open AI video, providing a flexible tool for developers and creators.

Core Capabilities

The model is designed to handle several distinct generation tasks, making it a multi-functional tool for video creation:

  • Text-to-video: Generates a video sequence from a descriptive text prompt.
  • Image-to-video: Animates a static source image based on a prompt.
  • Video continuation: Extends an existing video clip by generating subsequent frames.

The model's permissive license and multifaceted approach make it a significant contribution to the open-source ecosystem. It provides researchers and commercial entities alike with a solid foundation for experimenting with and deploying generative video applications.

Sources

  • meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video

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Specs

Resolution720p
Frame rate30 fps
LicenseMIT
Downloads2.8K
Likes589

Modalities

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