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An open world model turns one image into a minute of controllable video

development2026-05-16

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Nvidia's open-source SANA-WM turns a single image and a camera path into a minute of controllable 720p video on one GPU, while Nous Research's attention variant ran seventeen times faster than standard attention at half a million tokens of context.

Reported metric: 17x at 512k

Reporting date: 2026-05-16 (not necessarily the event date)

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An open world model turns one image into a minute of controllable video
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Reporting date: 2026-05-16
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-16-a-minute-of-video-from-one-image
Claim: Nvidia's open-source SANA-WM turns a single image and a camera path into a minute of controllable 720p video on one GPU, while Nous Research's attention variant ran seventeen times faster than standard attention at half a million tokens of context.
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