PixelDance

Closed weights ByteDance September 2024

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
ByteDance
Organisation type
Industry
Country
China
Published
24 September 2024
Authors
ByteDance

What it does

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

Domain
Video, Vision
Task
Video generation, Text-to-video, Image-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
114,229,250,000,000 tokens

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
Hosted access (no API)
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
Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

Currently invite only, I would expect a large number of users when released

Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

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

Reference
PixelDance AI - Leading AI Video Generation Platform
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

PixelDance was published by ByteDance, in China, in September 2024. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

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

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

How it was trained

Around 114,229,250,000,000 tokens went into training it.

Its inclusion criterion is sOTA improvement.

Answers

PixelDance — common questions

01

Is PixelDance open source?

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

02

How many parameters does PixelDance have?

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

03

Who created PixelDance?

PixelDance was published by ByteDance, based in China, categorised as industry.

04

When was PixelDance released?

PixelDance was published in September 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

05

What is PixelDance used for?

PixelDance works in Video, Vision, and is recorded as handling video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

06

What GPU do I need to run PixelDance?

None. PixelDance 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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