UniVideo Explained: The Single Open-Source Model That Understands, Generates & Edits Videos with AI

UniVideo in Plain English: One Model That Understands, Generates, and Edits Videos Core question: Can a single open-source model both “see” and “remix” videos without task-specific add-ons? Short answer: Yes—UniVideo freezes a vision-language model for understanding, bolts a lightweight connector to a video diffusion transformer, and trains only the connector + diffusion net; one checkpoint runs text-to-video, image-to-video, face-swap, object removal, style transfer, multi-ID generation, and more. What problem is this article solving? Reader query: “I’m tired of chaining CLIP + Stable-Diffusion + ControlNet + RVM just to edit a clip. Is there a unified pipeline that does it all, …