LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research

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LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research

The Decoder · Aug 29, 2026, 9:36 AM UTC

LAION's Big Video Dataset (BVD) is one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, with 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips. Models trained on BVD beat the previous benchmark, InternVid, by up to 2.1 percentage points.…

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