Goku-8B
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
- The University of Hong Kong,ByteDance
- Organisation type
- Academia,Industry
- Country
- Hong Kong, China
- Published
- 7 February 2025
- Authors
- Shoufa Chen, Chongjian Ge, Yuqi Zhang, Yida Zhang, Fengda Zhu, Hao Yang, Hongxiang Hao, Hui Wu, Zhichao Lai, Yifei Hu, Ting-Che Lin, Shilong Zhang, Fu Li, Chuan Li, Xing Wang, Yanghua Peng, Peize Sun, Ping Luo, Yi Jiang, Zehuan Yuan, Bingyue Peng, Xiaobing Liu
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Video, Vision
- Task
- Video generation, Image 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
- 8B
- Training data
- tokens
"implemented through the Goku model family, which comprises Transformer architectures with 2B and 8B parameters."
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Record confidence
- Confident
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Goku: Flow Based Video Generative Foundation Models
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
What this model is
Goku-8B was published by The University of Hong Kong,ByteDance, in Hong Kong, in February 2025. The organisation is categorised as academia,Industry.
It works in Video, Vision, and is recorded as doing video generation, Image generation, Text-to-video.
Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.
Answers
Goku-8B — common questions
Is Goku-8B open source?
The licensing for Goku-8B was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.
How many parameters does Goku-8B have?
Goku-8B has 8B parameters. "implemented through the Goku model family, which comprises Transformer architectures with 2B and 8B 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.
Who created Goku-8B?
Goku-8B was published by The University of Hong Kong,ByteDance, based in Hong Kong, categorised as academia,Industry.
When was Goku-8B released?
Goku-8B was published in February 2025.
What is Goku-8B used for?
Goku-8B works in Video, Vision, and is recorded as handling video generation, Image generation, Text-to-video. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.
What GPU do I need to run Goku-8B?
None. Goku-8B 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.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
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