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    NVlabs/Sana

    SANA & Sol: Efficient Generative Models and Full-Stack Training & Inference Engines for Image, Video, and World Modeling

    machine-learning
    deep-learning
    diffusion
    dit
    linear-transformer
    nvfp4
    pytorch
    Python
    Apache-2.0
    9.8K stars
    793 forks
    9.8K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 4, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 24 days ago, with 26 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides an efficient framework for high-resolution image and video synthesis using linear diffusion transformers and advanced attention mechanisms.
    • Delivers significantly faster and smaller models enabling 4K image generation and real-time video editing with low GPU memory requirements.
    • Use for generating high-quality 4K resolution images with fast inference on limited GPU resources.
    • Use for creating controllable 720p, minute-long videos with 6-DoF camera control for embodied AI and world modeling applications.
    • Use for real-time streaming video-to-video editing and minute-scale video generation with stable temporal consistency.

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    From the README

    ICLR 2025 Oral | ICML 2025 | ICCV 2025 Highlight | ICLR 2026 Oral

    SANA is an efficiency-oriented codebase for high-resolution image and video generation, providing complete training and inference pipelines. This repository contains code for SANA, SANA-1.5, SANA-Sprint, SANA-Video, SANA-WM, SANA-Streaming, and Sol-RL. More details can be found in our 📚 documentation.

    Join our Discord to engage in discussions with the community! If you have any questions, run into issues, or are interested in contributing, don't hesitate to reach out!

    We introduce SANA, a series of efficient diffusion models for high-resolution image and video generation:

    In summary, SANA is a fully open-source framework integrating efficient training, fast inference, and flexible deployment for both image and video generation. Deployable on laptop GPUs with < 8GB VRAM via 4-bit quantization.

    Excerpt from the NVlabs/Sana README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    793+98

    Open issues

    135-1

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