{"slug": "laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai", "title": "LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research", "summary": "LAION released the Big Video Dataset (BVD), one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, containing 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips. Models trained on BVD outperformed the previous benchmark, InternVid, by up to 2.1 percentage points. LAION cites a 2024 Hamburg court ruling that permits collecting copyrighted content for non-commercial research.", "body_md": "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. Legally, LAION can likely point to a 2024 Hamburg court ruling that allows collecting copyrighted content for non-commercial research.\n\nThe article [LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research](https://the-decoder.com/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai-research/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai-research/", "published_at": "2026-08-29 09:36:48+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-29 09:49:25.809366+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["LAION", "Big Video Dataset", "InternVid", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai.jsonld"}}