Genmo launches Mochi 1 Text-to-Video Generation Model, But Server Crashes Within Hours

On October 22, Genmo, the AI based video generating platform, released Mochi 1, a new state-of-the-art open-source text-to-video generation model. It can generate high quality videos with mere text prompts.

In addition to Mochi 1, the company also unveiled its hosted playground, where users can try Mochi 1 for free. The weights and architecture for Mochi 1 are open and available on HuggingFace.

However, the company gained traction soon after its release as Genmo acknowledged the website crash, attributing it to the rise in traffic. “We’re seeing extremely high load. Some users are seeing errors, please bear with us as we scale up capacity,” the company announced on X.