HunyuanVideo is an open-source video generation foundation model developed by Tencent's Hunyuan AI team. Released in December 2024, it was at launch the largest open-source video model at more than 13 billion parameters.
The model performs text-to-video generation at 540p and 720p resolution, producing up to 129 frames (about 5 seconds) per generation. A companion model, HunyuanVideo-I2V (released March 2025), adds image-to-video generation. The publicly documented architecture combines unified image and video generation, a multimodal LLM text encoder, causal 3D VAE compression, and a built-in prompt-rewrite feature with Normal and Master modes. The model does not generate audio natively.
Code and model weights are freely downloadable from GitHub and Hugging Face under Tencent's community license, with FP8 quantized weights and Hugging Face Diffusers integration available. The model is widely used for research, self-hosted video generation, and community fine-tuning and LoRA training in the ComfyUI ecosystem. A free online playground is available for users in China, and paid serving is offered through Tencent Cloud and third-party inference hosts.