Show-1

Open weights National University of Singapore September 2023

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

This model's weights are open, but no parameter count has been published for it. Every memory and speed figure starts from that number, so we would rather show nothing than a fabricated estimate.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
National University of Singapore
Organisation type
Academia
Country
Singapore
Published
27 September 2023
Authors
David Junhao Zhang, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Jia-Wei Liu, Rui Zhao, Lingmin Ran, Yuchao Gu, Difei Gao, Mike Zheng Shou

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Video
Task
Video generation, Text-to-video

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
160,358,400,000,000 tokens

WebVid-10M 10.7M video-caption pairs. 52K total video hours.

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware
NVIDIA A100

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Open — downloadable
Model access
Open weights (non-commercial)
Training code
Unreleased

https://github.com/showlab/Show-1 don't see training code Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

"Our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on standard benchmarks including UCF-101 and MSR-VTT."

Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Show-1: Marrying Pixel and Latent Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Show-1 was published by National University of Singapore, in Singapore, in September 2023. academia is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Video, and is recorded as doing video generation, Text-to-video.

Because its weights were released, nothing about running it depends on a provider staying available — it is yours once downloaded.

Training and provenance

It was trained on about 160,358,400,000,000 tokens of text.

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is sOTA improvement.

Answers

Show-1 — common questions

01

What is Show-1 used for?

Show-1 works in Video, and is recorded as handling video generation, Text-to-video. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

02

Where can I download Show-1?

The weights for Show-1 are published, though we do not hold a repository link for it. This site calculates hardware requirements rather than hosting model files.

03

What GPU do I need to run Show-1?

We cannot say. Show-1 has open weights, but no parameter count has been published for it, and every memory and speed calculation starts from that number. We would rather show nothing than a fabricated estimate.

04

Is Show-1 open source?

Its weights are published, so Show-1 can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. Note that open weights is not the same as open source in the full sense — it says nothing about the training data, the training code, or the commercial terms attached.

05

How many parameters does Show-1 have?

No parameter count has been published for Show-1, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

06

Who created Show-1?

Show-1 was published by National University of Singapore, based in Singapore, categorised as academia.

07

When was Show-1 released?

Show-1 was published in September 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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