ByteDance Open-Sources Lance — 3B-Parameter Unified Multimodal Model Handles Image/Video Understanding, Generation, and Editing
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ByteDance Research released Lance, a 3B-active-parameter model that unifies image understanding, video understanding, image generation, video generation, image editing, and video editing in a single framework under Apache 2.0. Trained from scratch within a 128-A100 budget using a dual-stream Mixture-of-Experts architecture with modal-aware rotary positional encoding, Lance delivers competitive performance across all six tasks at a fraction of the parameter count of specialized models. Available now on Hugging Face at 24.8GB — 94 upvotes on r/singularity.