Imagen Video

Closed weights Google Brain 11.6B parameters October 2022

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No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

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Origin

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

Organisation
Google Brain
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
5 October 2022
Authors
Jonathan Ho, William Chan, Chitwan Saharia, Jay Whang, Ruiqi Gao, Alexey Gritsenko, Diederik P. Kingma, Ben Poole, Mohammad Norouzi, David J. Fleet, Tim Salimans

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.

Parameters
11.6B

Figure 6 summarizes the entire cascading pipeline of Imagen Video. In total, we have 1 frozen text encoder, 1 base video diffusion model, 3 SSR (spatial super-resolution), and 3 TSR (temporal superresolution) models – for a total of 7 video diffusion models, with a total of 11.6B diffusion model parameters

Training data
tokens

We train our models on a combination of an internal dataset consisting of 14 million video-text pairs and 60 million image-text pairs, and the publicly available LAION-400M image-text dataset.

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
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Unreleased

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
Record confidence
Confident
Citations
2,019

Sources

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

Reference
Imagen Video: High Definition Video Generation with Diffusion Models
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

What this model is

Imagen Video was published by Google Brain, in United States of America, in October 2022. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

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

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Answers

Imagen Video — common questions

01

What is Imagen Video used for?

Imagen Video 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

What GPU do I need to run Imagen Video?

None. Imagen Video is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

03

Is Imagen Video open source?

No. Imagen Video has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

04

How many parameters does Imagen Video have?

Imagen Video has 11.6B parameters. Figure 6 summarizes the entire cascading pipeline of Imagen Video. In total, we have 1 frozen text encoder, 1 base video diffusion model, 3 SSR (spatial super-resolution), and 3 TSR (temporal superresolution) models – for a total of 7 video diffusion models, with a total of 11.6B diffusion model parameters. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

05

Who created Imagen Video?

Imagen Video was published by Google Brain, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

06

When was Imagen Video released?

Imagen Video was published in October 2022. 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 25 May 2026

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