AnimateDiff

Community · 2023 · Video Generation · International / academic

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Community
C · CEO & Politics: N/A (academic research) — No public partisan activity documented
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Video
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: International / academic
K · Key Staffers: Yuwei Guo (Lead author), Ceyuan Yang (Corresponding author), Bo Dai (Senior author)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Video Generation
N · Safety Issues: Synthetic media risks: potential copyright/style imitation issues, deepfake or deceptive content misuse, bias in generated outputs, and prompt/NSFW policy bypass attempts.
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: AnimateDiff (ICLR 2024 Spotlight), a plug-and-play motion module that turns most community text-to-image models into animation generators without additional training; the main branch targets Stable Diffusion 1.5, with a beta branch for SDXL.
S · Stock / Status: N/A (academic)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: [UNKNOWN]
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Video Generation from Community, released 2023.

Data completeness 81% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“AnimateDiff.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/animatediff.html