Model family

Mochi

Mochi is a model family from Genmo1 2, with 1 assessed release in this catalog. Licenses and availability are recorded for each release, not for the family; its releases use the Apache License 2.0.

Mochi is Genmo's line of text-to-video diffusion models. Its only open-weight release so far is Mochi 1 preview (October 2024), a 10B-parameter model published with its video VAE under Apache 2.0. Genmo's hosted playground refers to a Mochi 1.1 model, for which this catalog found no open-weight release.1 2 5 6

Release notes: Mochi 1 announcement (external site: genmo.ai)
Repository: genmoai/mochi repository (external site: github.com)
Model hub: Model card (Hugging Face) (external site: huggingface.co)
Documentation: Mochi in Hugging Face Diffusers (external site: huggingface.co)

On AI on Hugging Face: genmo/mochi-1-preview

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Sep 29, 2026Documented release Oct 22, 2024

Releases assessed

Each release is assessed on its own. This family has no family-wide openness label.

Releases in the Mochi family
Release	Weights	Tier (USASI rubric v0.2)	License	Released
Mochi 1 preview	Weights: Public	Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight	Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0	Oct 22, 2024

What it is useful for

Generating short videos from text prompts. Genmo notes that the preview is tuned for photorealistic styles and generates 480p video.3 1

Organization context

Genmo

Provenance and derivatives

Genmo states that Mochi 1 was trained entirely from scratch. It encodes prompts with a single T5-XXL text encoder (the google/t5-v1_1-xxl variant, per the Diffusers documentation).3 4

U.S. eligibility

Project eligibility rests on documented governing or maintaining entities, not on contributors.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Mochi is developed and published by Genmo, whose terms of service name Genmo Inc. at a San Francisco address and whose job board lists roles at "San Francisco HQ". Eligibility of each release is assessed on the release record.7 8

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Sources

1.
Mochi 1: A new SOTA in open text-to-video (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo · Announcement · published Oct 22, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
genmo/mochi-1-preview model card (external site: huggingface.co)
Genmo · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
genmoai/mochi README (external site: github.com)
Genmo · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
Mochi 1 Preview | Hugging Face Diffusers documentation (external site: huggingface.co)
Hugging Face · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
Genmo on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)
Genmo · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
Genmo Playground (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
Terms of Service | Genmo (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo Inc. · Official page · published Sep 16, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
8.
Genmo job board (Ashby posting API) (external site: api.ashbyhq.com)
Genmo · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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USASI. (2026, September 29). Mochi. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/mochi/

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@misc{usasi_mochi,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Mochi},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/mochi/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
}

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