# Apple open-weights video model (7B)

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Apple open-weights video model (7B) and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open-weights 7B video model from Apple that people find good for its size and a promising proof of concept. Main caveat: its license is a custom MIT-style license, not plain MIT.

## Why people recommend it

- Good results for a 7B model (1 comments): "For a 7b model the results look pretty good!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121215))
- Clearly better than older video models (1 comments): "Definitely better than what was available 2 years ago." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119264))
- Promising proof of concept (1 comments): "actually delivered a promising PoC" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125810))
- Smaller variant nearly matches larger one (1 comments): "for the variant that is comparable, the results aren't that much worse" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121667))

## What people warn about

- Custom MIT-style license, not standard MIT (2 comments): "This Apple license is click wrap MIT with the rights, at least, to modify and redistribute the model itself." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46122034)) "One red flag on their github is the license looks to be their own flavor of MIT" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121526))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Seedance 2.0](https://hackerapproved.com/p/seedance-2-5.md): 68 recommend
- [MiniMax H3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/minimax-h3.md): 29 recommend
- [Google Veo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/veo.md): 20 recommend
- [Gemini Omni](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-omni.md): 16 recommend
- [Wan video model](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wan-2-2.md): 15 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Apple open-weights video model (7B)", https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-open-weights-video-model/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).