SkyReels-A1

Closed weights Kunlun Inc. February 2025

No estimate

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

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
Kunlun Inc.
Organisation type
Industry
Country
China
Published
15 February 2025
Authors
Di Qiu, Zhengcong Fei, Rui Wang, Jialin Bai, Changqian Yu, Mingyuan Fan, Guibin Chen, Xiang Wen

What it does

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

Domain
Video
Task
Video generation, Image-to-video
Base model
CogVideoX

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
tokens

Includes Panda70M, which dominates

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 A800 SXM
Chips used
32
Power draw
25.1 kW

How it is classified

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

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
36

Sources

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

Reference
SkyReels-A1: Expressive Portrait Animation in Video Diffusion Transformers
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

What this model is

SkyReels-A1 was published by Kunlun Inc., in China, in February 2025. It comes out of industry.

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

It builds on CogVideoX, which is why it shares that model's general shape and size.

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

Answers

SkyReels-A1 — common questions

01

How many parameters does SkyReels-A1 have?

No parameter count has been published for SkyReels-A1, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

02

Who created SkyReels-A1?

SkyReels-A1 was published by Kunlun Inc., based in China, categorised as industry.

03

When was SkyReels-A1 released?

SkyReels-A1 was published in February 2025.

04

What is SkyReels-A1 used for?

SkyReels-A1 works in Video, and is recorded as handling video generation, Image-to-video. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

05

What GPU do I need to run SkyReels-A1?

None. SkyReels-A1 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.

06

Is SkyReels-A1 open source?

The licensing for SkyReels-A1 was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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