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MAGI-1 (Sand AI)

Apache-2.0 autoregressive video model generating chunk by chunk for text, image and video-to-video

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What MAGI-1 (Sand AI) does

  • Apache-2.0 autoregressive video model generating chunk by chunk for text, image and video-to-video
  • Chunk-wise prompting for controllable long videos
  • MAGI-1.1 weights released June 2026; web interface at magi.sand.ai

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What is MAGI-1 (Sand AI)?

MAGI-1 (Sand AI) is listed under AI Video Generation, in the Content & Media Generation category on Flocci AI Tools. Apache-2.0 autoregressive video model generating chunk by chunk for text, image and video-to-video. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.

Is MAGI-1 (Sand AI) free?

MAGI-1 (Sand AI) is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can MAGI-1 (Sand AI) do?

MAGI-1 (Sand AI) does 3 things the catalog singles out: Apache-2.0 autoregressive video model generating chunk by chunk for text, image and video-to-video; chunk-wise prompting for controllable long videos; magi-1.1 weights released june 2026; web interface at magi.sand.ai.

What is the best free alternative to MAGI-1 (Sand AI)?

CogVideoX (Zhipu) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Video Generation sub-category and is free. Genmo (Mochi 1), HunyuanVideo (Tencent) and HunyuanVideo 1.5 also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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