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View guide →Text and image to video generation: CogVideoX (2024) and CogVideo (ICLR 2023)
CogVideo is an open-source video project by zai-org (zai-org/CogVideo on GitHub). It has 13,055 GitHub stars and 1,358 forks, is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 4 November 2025.
Generation, restoration, upscaling, face swap, or lip sync — each project here specializes, so start from the job to be done.
Download the model files the project needs; most READMEs link exact versions and where to place them.
Python environments or Docker images are the norm — follow the install section for your GPU.
Feed in prompts or source media, tune the settings, and re-run until the result lands.
Real model files you download and run — no API key, no per-second billing.
Everything happens on your machine; footage never uploads anywhere.
Each tool focuses on one job and does it well, instead of a shallow all-in-one.
Many of these ship alongside papers and keep absorbing new techniques.
Shared settings, presets, and integrations (especially around ComfyUI) multiply what one tool can do.
Several use permissive licenses — always confirm the model license for your use case.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/zai-org/CogVideo.git
cd CogVideoIsolate dependencies so nothing clashes with your other projects.
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activateInstall the requirements, then follow the README's launch command (it varies per project).
pip install -r requirements.txtIt varies widely — upscalers run on modest cards, while full video diffusion wants serious VRAM. Check each project's docs.
Often yes for the code, but model weights carry their own licenses — read both.
It is an open-source project at zai-org/CogVideo with 1,358 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
The gap keeps shrinking; for restoration and upscaling, open tools already match or beat paid ones.
Some do via MPS or CPU, but NVIDIA on Linux/Windows is the best-supported path.
GitHub issues and Discussions on each repo, plus Discord communities for the popular ones.
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