A Deep Dive into LTXV, a New Video Generation Model from Lightricks
LTXV, the recently released video generation model from innovative AI video company Lightricks, is attracting considerable interest from AI enthusiasts, open source adherents, and video software developers alike. The new model was released under OpenRail license on Github and Hugging Face.
For filmmakers, LTXV promises to invigorate Lightricks’ innovative LTX Studio with greater speed, quality, and flexibility, enabling users to generate longer, more dynamic video clips with greater control and precision. For AI researchers, LTXV offers a foundational model that can underpin new capabilities and ideas and open up new horizons for innovation.
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Performance-wise, the new model stands out for a number of reasons, but primarily for its speed, producing five seconds of video content in just four seconds, while still meeting high standards for quality and control. What’s more, LTXV delivers outstanding results even when run on home computers with consumer-grade graphics cards.
“We built Lightricks with a vision to push the boundaries of what’s possible in digital creativity to continue bridging that gap between imagination and creation – ultimately leading to LTXV,” said Zeev Farbman, CEO and co-founder of Lightricks, via a press release. The new model, he continued, “will allow us to develop better products that address the needs of so many industries taking advantage of AI’s power.”
Let’s take a deep dive into what makes LTXV stand out from the crowd.
Unprecedented Generative Rendering Speed
As noted by VentureBeat’s Michael Nunez, LTXV’s standout feature is its speed. When used on Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, it delivers five seconds of video content in just four seconds. Put another way, that’s just over 30 frames per second of processing, and without any drop in visual quality.
In comparison, most video generation models out there deliver between five and eight frames per second, on a good day. Kling AI comes close with 30 fps, although you’ll sacrifice quality, and MiniMax’s Hailuo AI delivers 25 fps, but that’s the best you’ll get.
Nothing can move as fast as your imagination, but waiting for laggy results can drag down creativity. “When you’re waiting a couple of minutes to get a result, it’s a terrible user experience,” Farbman told Nunez. “But once you’re getting feedback quickly, you can experiment and iterate faster. You develop a mental model of what the system can do, and that unlocks creativity.”
Even when used on consumer-grade equipment, LTXV is ahead of the rest, offering near-real-time generation for home users. The architecture is optimized to reduce computational load and lower video generation times by over 90% on both GPU and TPU systems, making it among the fastest models of its kind for high-quality video.
Superior Resolution and Visual Continuity
It’s important to note that you won’t have to settle for lower quality video to tap into LTXV’s fast speeds. The model can produce video at 768 x 512 resolution, which is higher than most models out there. CogVideo, for example, which is widely used, can achieve 720 x 480 resolution.
To be fair, there are models that deliver video at higher quality than LTXV, but they can’t measure up to the new Lightricks model’s other abilities. Google’s Veo AI, for example, can produce 1080-pixel resolution with impressive detail, but it’s still behind a waitlist in experimental mode, and consistency tends to drop off in longer clips.
Luma Dream Machine delivers a high resolution of 1360 x 752, but it’s mind-numbingly slow, with generations sometimes taking hours, according to users.
LTXV’s high quality owes a lot to its Diffusion Transformer architecture. This ensures smooth, coherent transitions between frames and maintains consistency throughout longer clips. Issues like object morphing, which have caused headaches in previous generations of video models, have been eliminated.
User Accessibility
It’s one thing to produce top results on top-level, enterprise-grade equipment. It’s another to deliver the same results for home users, and here LTXV shines. Most models of a similar level rely on costly high-end GPUs or require aggressive quantization. But LTXV’s architecture allows it to achieve high-quality results without the heavy computational load.
LTXV is designed to maintain precision and visual quality without compromising speed or memory efficiency, using two billion parameters and running on bfloat16 precision. On a home computer with a powerful video card, the model still generates top-quality content in near-real time. In comparison, you’ll use up nearly all your memory generating a two-second clip on OpenSora.
“We also want to appeal to AI enthusiasts who work with their home computers,” Farbman told Calcalist. “We made a significant effort to ensure the model can run on these graphics cards, allowing users to run it at home.”
The ability to generate fast, high-quality video content on affordable, consumer-grade hardware can be crucial for smaller studios, researchers on tight budgets, and independent creators. When they can ideate quickly and immediately view and tweak the results, allowing them to innovate and create with more freedom and greater confidence.
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Scalability to Longer Clips
Duration has long been a serious obstacle for AI-generated video. Most models, even those released recently, produce clips that last for just a few seconds, usually four to six seconds.
Google’s unreleased experimental Veo AI can supposedly generate content over one minute long, and Kling AI promises clips lasting up to two minutes. The trouble is that quality generally drops significantly after around five seconds.
Here too, LTXV is breaking new ground. The model can produce extended video clips that remain consistent throughout, so that creators and filmmakers can generate longer dynamic video clips. Adding scalability to high speeds and high quality means that creators can focus on expressing their creativity instead of struggling to overcome technical barriers.
Opening the Horizons for Generative Video
Taken all together, these features make it possible to utilize generative video in many more verticals and use cases. Once you can produce high quality, longer video clips at high speeds on consumer-grade equipment, new horizons open up.
For example, Farbman suggests, gaming companies could apply LTXV to upgrade graphics in older games and enhance user experience with personalized video content rendered in real time. Marketing agencies can put generative AI to work producing thousands of ads for targeted A/B testing and more personalized campaigns. Filmmakers can test an unlimited number of styles, angles, and locations, until they feel satisfied that they’ve expressed their vision.
“Imagine casting an actor – real or virtual – and tweaking the visuals in real time to find the best creative for a specific audience,” Farbman said. These are the possibilities that arise with LTXV.
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