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LAION RELEASES 10M-HOUR VIDEO DATASET FOR AI

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SAT, AUG 29, 2026

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LAION has published Big Video Dataset (BVD), an open collection containing 80 million videos and 10 million hours of footage designed for AI research. Models trained on BVD outperform the previous benchmark InternVid by up to 2.1 percentage points.

The Dataset BVD comprises 80 million videos with 10 million cumulative hours of runtime and 55 million auto-described clips. LAION positioned it as one of the largest open video datasets available for machine learning research. Performance AI models trained on BVD demonstrated measurable improvements over InternVid, the previous benchmark dataset, achieving gains up to 2.1 percentage points across tested metrics. Legal Status LAION can likely operate under a 2024 Hamburg court ruling that permits collecting copyrighted content for non-commercial research purposes. This legal precedent provides a foundation for the dataset's distribution and use within the research community. The release marks a significant resource for video understanding, generation, and related AI applications in academic and non-commercial settings.

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