FastMetal-QAD: Generate 5-second videos locally on Mac in 30 seconds
yangyi · x · 2026-08-20
Hao AI Lab released FastMetal-QAD, a family of open-source video models (1.3B, 5B, 14B) optimized for local generation on Apple Silicon via MLX. The 5B model generates a 5-second 480P clip in 30 seconds and 720P in 151 seconds, fitting within 16GB unified memory. All components (DiT, sampler, decoder) run natively on Metal with INT8 quantization.
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