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MAGI-2 Preview

Sand.ai's open-weights 114B MoE (6B active) audio-video model generating 10 s clips; needs a multi-GPU server.

  • Sand.ai
  • Open weights
  • Released 5 Aug 2026

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Where it ranks

  • B
    Video generation
    Models · Local · 1,045 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio)

Facts

Vendor
Sand.ai
Family
MAGI
Released
5 Aug 2026
Weights
Open: download and run it yourself
License
Apache-2.0
Parameters
114B (6B active)
GPU memory to run locally
~640 GB (README requirement: 8 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs (80 GB each); checkpoints total ~307 GB)
Access
Free (open weights)
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Price from huggingface.co, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Image to Video (AA-Video-I2V v1.1, with audio)1,046MAGI-2 Preview
AA-Video-I2V v1.1 (with audio) board
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio)1,045MAGI-2 Preview
AA-Video-T2V v2.1 (with audio) board
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video, no audio (AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1)1,012MAGI-2 Preview
AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1 (no audio) board
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai

Where you can use it

No tracked tool lists this model yet; as open weights it runs in local runtimes.

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  • MAGI-1 · Apr 2025

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