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HunyuanVideo-1.5: A leading lightweight video generation model
4.5K starsApr 10, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo-1.5Alternatives
CogVideo alternatives for AI agents.
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text and image to video generation: CogVideoX (2024) and CogVideo (ICLR 2023)
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VideoCrafter2: Overcoming Data Limitations for High-Quality Video Diffusion Models
5.1K starsJan 9, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add AILab-CVC/VideoCrafter#3
Advancing Open-source World Models
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$ npx skills add Robbyant/lingbot-world#4
Bring portraits to life!
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$ npx skills add KlingAIResearch/LivePortrait#5
"ViMax: Agentic Video Generation (Director, Screenwriter, Producer, and Video Generator All-in-One)"
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$ npx skills add HKUDS/ViMax#6
Phantom: Subject-Consistent Video Generation via Cross-Modal Alignment
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$ npx skills add Phantom-video/Phantom#7
Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
16K starsMar 17, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add Wan-Video/Wan2.2#8
[ECCV 2024, Oral] DynamiCrafter: Animating Open-domain Images with Video Diffusion Priors
3.0K starsSep 8, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add Doubiiu/DynamiCrafter#9
Kandinsky 5.0: A family of diffusion models for Video & Image generation
776 starsMay 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add kandinskylab/kandinsky-5#10
Video generation from text&image, 1st-gen
920 starsMay 10, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add 360CVGroup/FancyVideo#11
HunyuanCustom: A Multimodal-Driven Architecture for Customized Video Generation
1.2K starsOct 15, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanCustom#12
A unified inference and post-training framework for accelerated video generation.
3.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add hao-ai-lab/FastVideo#13
[CVPR 2026] PersonaLive! : Expressive Portrait Image Animation for Live Streaming
3.3K starsMay 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add GVCLab/PersonaLive#14
HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework For Large Video Generation Model
12K starsNov 21, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo#15
Implementation of Video Diffusion Models, Jonathan Ho's new paper extending DDPMs to Video Generation - in Pytorch
1.4K starsMay 3, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add lucidrains/video-diffusion-pytorch#16
LongLive 2.0: Infra - Long Video Gen
2.3K starsJun 13, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVideo Generation
$ npx skills add NVlabs/LongLiveHow to choose
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