# meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video

Repository: https://github.com/meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/longcat-video
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-27T02:51:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 54/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 35, longevity 22
- inputs: {"age_days": 312, "days_push": 98, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7665, forks 1361 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:02.240583+00:00)

## What it is
LongCat-Video is a 13.6B-parameter foundational video generation model from Meituan that unifies text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-continuation tasks in a single framework. The repository provides inference code, model weights on Hugging Face, and tooling for efficient long video generation.

## Use cases
- generate videos from text prompts
- turn an image into a video
- extend a video clip with continuation
- generate minutes-long videos without quality drift
- run video generation on gpu efficiently
- research video generation models

## When to choose
- you need a unified open model for text-to-video, image-to-video, and video continuation
- you want long-form video generation with minimal quality degradation
- you need MIT-licensed model weights for research or product prototyping

## When to avoid
- you lack high-end GPU hardware for 13.6B-parameter inference
- you need lightweight or real-time video generation
- you only need video editing rather than generation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, machine-learning, deep-learning, llm-inference
- domain: artificial-intelligence, deep-learning, media
- platform: python
- tags: video-generation, text-to-video, image-to-video, video-continuation, diffusion-model, world-model, huggingface, model-weights, video, gpu, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video (main) score 54

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:02.240583+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:36:04.653576+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:02.240583+00:00, sha 5e280c7e70a9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.