Image & cinematic stills
Image Studio switches between text-to-image (50+ models) and image-to-image (55+ models) automatically. Cinema Studio adds camera, lens, focal length and aperture controls for photorealistic shots.
Definition
Definition —What Is Open Generative AI?
Open Generative AI is a free, open-source platform for generating AI images and videos, combining 420+ models across 14 purpose-built studios. Unlike closed platforms like Midjourney or Runway, it applies no content filters, charges no subscription, and can be self-hosted under the MIT license for full data privacy.
What it does
What The Platform Actually Does
The 14 studios aren't 14 separate apps — they're one shared model catalog split into purpose-built workspaces, so the right models are already wired in when you open one. Grouped by task, here's what that looks like in practice.
Video & motion
Video Studio runs text-to-video (40+ models) and image-to-video (60+ models) off one timeline, so a generated still becomes the opening frame of a clip. Vibe Motion Studio and AI Clipping handle stylized effects and highlight extraction.
Voice, lip sync & audio
Lip Sync Studio drives 9 dedicated models across two modes — animate a portrait from audio, or re-sync an existing video. Audio Studio generates and edits music and sound; Body Swap (Recast) Studio handles appearance recasts.
Automation & production
Workflow Studio chains models into a repeatable, node-based pipeline you can run unattended. Agent Studio, Design Agent Studio, Marketing Studio and Explore Apps build on the same catalog for conversational and batch production work.
Model catalog
The 8 Model Categories Inside It
Every studio pulls from the same underlying catalog. This is what defines this kind of open model stack in practice — one open library of models, organized by task rather than locked behind a single provider.
70+
Text-to-Image
Flux Dev, Nano Banana 2, Seedream 5.0, Ideogram v3, SDXL and more.
See the models70+
Image-to-Image
Nano Banana 2 Edit, Flux Kontext Pro, Seededit v3, upscalers.
See the models85+
Text-to-Video
Kling v3, Sora 2, Veo 3, Wan 2.6, Seedance 2.0 and more.
See the models120+
Image-to-Video
Kling v2.1 I2V, Veo3 I2V, Hunyuan I2V, Wan 2.2 I2V.
See the models35+
Video-to-Video
Video effects, AI Clipping, Vibe Motion, video-conditioned edits.
15
Lip Sync
Infinite Talk, Wan 2.2 Speech to Video, LatentSync, Creatify.
See the models3
Body Swap / Recast
Subject and appearance recast across image and video.
15+
Audio
Text-to-music, remix, and audio editing models.
See the modelsClosed vs. open
How It Differs From Closed Platforms
The defining trait of this approach is what it removes, not what it adds: no paywall between you and the model, no filter deciding which prompts are allowed, and a license that lets you read and change the code.
| Capability | Other ProvidersMidjourney · Runway · Kling | This Platformfree & open source |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Subscription-based | Free (open-source) |
| Content filters | Yes — prompts blocked or altered | None |
| Models | Proprietary, single family | 420+ open & commercial models |
| Self-hosting | No | Yes |
| Source code | Closed | MIT licensed |
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Read the full breakdown against Midjourney or Runway.
Self-hosting & licensing
Self-Hosting and Local Inference
This project ships under the MIT license — the most permissive open-source license, meaning anyone can read, modify and redistribute it. The desktop app goes further with two local inference engines, so generation can run without leaving your machine.
sd.cpp — bundled engine
A C++ engine (from stable-diffusion.cpp) that runs on the same machine as the app — Metal GPU on Apple Silicon, CUDA/Vulkan/ROCm on Linux and Windows. Handles image-only models: Z-Image Turbo, Z-Image Base, Dreamshaper 8, Realistic Vision, SDXL.
Wan2GP — bring your own GPU server
An HTTP client to a self-run Wan2GP server on a CUDA or ROCm GPU — a gaming PC, a rented GPU box, or a Linux machine on the LAN. Handles the larger image models and every video model: Flux.1 Dev, Qwen Image, Wan 2.2, Hunyuan Video, LTX Video.
Local inference is available in the desktop app only — the hosted web version always uses cloud APIs.
FAQ
Common Questions, Answered
Open generative AI describes AI image, video and audio tools that are free to use, free of content filters, and open enough to self-host or modify. This project is a working example: 420+ models across 14 studios, MIT licensed, no subscription.
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