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We Said We Would Measure Prism. It Is 17 Minutes for Two Seconds.

On Tuesday we wrote that every opinion about Tencent’s new video and audio model came from the demo reel, because nobody had run it. We have now run it on one RTX 5090. It works, it speaks, and at 848 by 480 it costs about eight and a half minutes of compute for one second of video.

October 9, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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Prism's MIT Licence Covers the Weights. What You Can Download Today Is 360p.

Tencent Hunyuan and Fudan put out a video and audio model that generates both in one pass, and the headline all day has been native 2K under an MIT licence. We read the licence file and listed the repository. The licence is better than people are saying. The checkpoints are smaller than people are saying. Nobody has run it yet.

October 6, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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