Seaweed, short for "Seed-Video," is an advanced foundational model for video generation, utilizing diffusion transformers with approximately 7 billion parameters. Trained on extensive multi-modal data—including video, image, and text—Seaweed excels in creating high-quality videos from textual descriptions. It supports various resolutions, aspect ratios, and durations, enabling the generation of lifelike human characters and diverse landscapes. Seaweed's capabilities extend to producing consistent, multi-shot, long-form narratives, maintaining continuity across scenes. Additionally, it offers enhanced control by allowing users to generate videos from images, reference images, and audio inputs, ensuring synchronized lip movements and body gestures. With real-time generation at 1280x720 resolution and 24fps, Seaweed is ideal for interactive applications, providing a seamless multimedia experience. Key Features and Functionality: - Text-to-Video Generation: Creates videos from textual descriptions, supporting various resolutions and durations. - Image and Reference-Based Video Creation: Generates videos using initial frames or reference images, ensuring consistent motion and style. - Audio-Conditioned Video Generation: Produces videos synchronized with audio inputs, aligning lip movements and gestures with the audio's tone and timing. - Long-Form Storytelling: Maintains continuity across multi-shot narratives, allowing detailed scene descriptions. - High-Resolution and Real-Time Generation: Supports up to 1280x720 resolution at 24fps, with upsampling capabilities to 2K QHD. - Enhanced Physical Consistency: Post-training on synthetic videos ensures superior 3D consistency and precise human pose integrity. Primary Value and User Solutions: Seaweed addresses the growing demand for efficient and versatile video content creation. By automating the generation of high-quality videos from diverse inputs, it reduces production time and costs. Its adaptability to various media types and real-time generation capabilities make it invaluable for content creators, marketers, and developers seeking to produce engaging and dynamic visual content without extensive resources.