Sand AI Releases: MAGI-1

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Sand AI release so far: MAGI-1 on Apr 24, 2025. Sand AI surprises with MAGI-1, a 24B streaming autoregressive video model. The entry below has primary-source links, key numbers and the episode where we covered it live.

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MAGI-1

Sand AI surprises with MAGI-1, a 24B streaming autoregressive video model

Sand AI released MAGI-1, a 24B autoregressive diffusion model for long-form, streaming video generation with remarkable character consistency, often the Achilles' heel of AI video. It predicts video in 24-frame chunks with causal attention between them, enabling real-time streaming generation where compute doesn't scale with length. Nisten speculated it could be a major step toward usable AI-generated movies by solving the face/character consistency problem.

24B Parameters24 Frames per autoregressive chunk