Model reference · open weights
Looking-Ahead is an open-weight video model from TencentARC. Looking-Ahead (BF16) weighs 67.9 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is L40S 48 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the TencentARC/Looking-Ahead model card, 2026-10-22
What it is
| Released by | TencentARC |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026-10-21 |
| VRAM | 67.9 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Weights | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 5090 32 GB | does not fit | |
| L40S 48 GB | fits (encoders offloaded) | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | tight | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | tight | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
Final weights for Future Chunk Prediction (FCP) and the Teacher Forcing (TF) baseline. Use each model with its matching configuration in the Looking-Ahead code repository.
| Model | Method | Configuration | Final weights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3B | TF | tf_wan21_t2v_1.3b | Download |
| 1.3B | FCP | fcp_wan21_t2v_1.3b | Download |
| 5B | TF | tf_wan22_ti2v_5b | Download |
| 5B | FCP | fcp_wan22_ti2v_5b | Download |
Run from the code repository root to download the final weights:
hf download TencentARC/Looking-Ahead --local-dir weights/Looking-Ahead
The four final weight files total approximately 63.2 GiB.
After preparing the code environment and required Wan components:
uv run python inference.py \
--config fcp_wan21_t2v_1.3b \
--checkpoint_path weights/Looking-Ahead/fcp_wan21_t2v_1.3b/model_ema.pt \
--use_ema \
--image_path examples/inference/i2v/sailboat_lake.png \
--prompt_file examples/inference/i2v/sailboat_lake.txt \
--duration 5s --seed 42 \
--output_path outputs/fcp_example
To use another model, change both the configuration and weight folder.
Keep the filename model_ema.pt and the --use_ema flag.
See the code repository for setup and further examples.
Apache-2.0. See NOTICE for required notices.
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
How it works
Running it yourself
Rent a machine by the hour. How to run this model is on its model card.