Apple open-weights video model (7B)
Ranked 9 of 9 AI video generators by recommenders
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.
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.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good results for a 7B model
“For a 7b model the results look pretty good!”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model” Clearly better than older video models
“Definitely better than what was available 2 years ago.”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model” Promising proof of concept
“actually delivered a promising PoC”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model” Smaller variant nearly matches larger one
“for the variant that is comparable, the results aren't that much worse”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Custom MIT-style license, not standard MIT
“This Apple license is click wrap MIT with the rights, at least, to modify and redistribute the model itself.”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model” “One red flag on their github is the license looks to be their own flavor of MIT”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model”
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The four most recommended other AI video generators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Seedance 2.0 | 68 | 21 | 76% | 10 | — | Approved |
| MiniMax H3 | 29 | 11 | 73% | 3 | — | — |
| Google Veo | 20 | 11 | 65% | 8 | — | — |
| Gemini Omni | 16 | 21 | 43% | 2 | — | — |
| Apple open-weights video model (7B)This page | 5 | 3 | 63% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“actually delivered a promising PoC”
“This Apple license is click wrap MIT with the rights, at least, to modify and redistribute the model itself.”
“for the variant that is comparable, the results aren't that much worse”
“worse than Wan 2.2 and can safely be ignored”
“One red flag on their github is the license looks to be their own flavor of MIT”
“For a 7b model the results look pretty good!”
“Definitely better than what was available 2 years ago.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.