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CogVideoX

CogVideoX is an open-weight video model from zai-org, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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About

What CogVideoX is

CogVideoX-2B 📍 Visit <a href="https://chatglm.cn/video?lang=en?fr=osmcogvideo"QingYing</a and <a href="https://open.bigmodel.cn/?utmcampaign=open&channeltrackkey=OWTVNma9"API Platform</a to experience commercial video generation models. Demo Show .video-container { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: space-around; } .video-item { width: 45%; margin-bottom: 20px; transition: transform 0.3s; } .video-item:hover { transform: scale(1.1); } .caption { text-align: center; margin-top: 10px; font-size: 11px; } Model Introduction CogVideoX is an open-source version of the video generation model originating from QingYing. The table below displays the list of video generation models we currently offer, along with their foundational information. Data Explanation + When testing using the diffusers library, all optimizations provided by the diffusers library were enabled. This solution has not been tested for actual VRAM/memory usage on devices other than NVIDIA A100 / H100. Generally, this solution can be adapted to all devices with NVIDIA Ampere architecture and above. If the optimizations are disabled, VRAM usage will increase significantly, with peak VRAM usage being about 3 times higher than the table shows. However, speed will increase by 3-4 times. You can selectively disable some optimizations, including: + When performing multi-GPU inference, the enablemodelcpuoffload() optimization needs to be disabled. + Using INT8 models will reduce inference speed. This is to ensure that GPUs with lower VRAM can perform inference normally while maintaining minimal video quality loss, though inference speed will decrease significantly. + The 2B model is trained with FP16 precision, and the 5B model is trained with BF16 precision. We recommend using the precision the model was trained with for inference. + PytorchAO and Optimum-quanto can be used to quantize the text encoder, Transformer, and VAE modules to reduce CogVideoX's memory requirements. This makes it possible to run the model on a free T4 Colab or GPUs with smaller VRAM! It is also worth noting that TorchAO quantization is fully compatible with torch.compile, which can significantly improve inference speed. F

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makerzai-org
TypeVideo models
Parameters (lead)1.7B
Variants2
Runs withdiffusers
Released2024-08-05
Popularity21k downloads / month
Likes686
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How video models work

Prompt / imagestart pointTemporal diffusionframes over timeVideoMP4 clipA video model generates a sequence of coherent frames from your prompt or a starting image.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
CogVideoX-2b1.7BBF16~3.9 GBWeights ↗
CogVideoX-5b5.6BBF16~12.8 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys cogvideox for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (cogvideox below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/videos/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"cogvideox","prompt":"a drone shot over a forest"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

diffusers safetensors cogvideox video-generation thudm text-to-video en diffusers:CogVideoXPipeline

Papers

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but apache-2.0 needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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