# YUME

Yume is a long-running open project for interactive, realistic worlds created from text, images or video. Yume 1.5's 5B model lets you explore with keyboard-style directions, and its authors speed it up with distillation for streaming use.

Released: 26 December 2025. Kind: Explorable world.

## What you control

- A text or image to start
- Keyboard directions for movement
- Camera turns

## License

Weights: Available (https://huggingface.co/stdstu123/Yume-5B-720P). Declared license: Apache-2.0.
The weights' model card declares Apache-2.0, a permissive license that allows commercial use. Check what the model was built on, because a base model's terms can still apply.

## Real-time

Real-time, per authors. Real-time streaming acceleration through distillation; no frame rate in the model card.

## How to run it

1. Install requirements.txt; a Windows one-click installer is also provided.
2. Download the weights and set their path in the inference scripts.
3. Run one of the scripts in scripts/inference, for example sample.sh, or sample_5b.sh for the 5B model.

## Where to try

No hosted destination verified.

## Sources

- [Project source](https://github.com/stdstu12/YUME)
- [Weights and model card](https://huggingface.co/stdstu123/Yume-5B-720P)

## Questions

### Is YUME open source?

YUME publishes downloadable weights under Apache-2.0. The declared license is permissive.

### Can I use YUME commercially?

The weights' model card declares Apache-2.0, a permissive license that allows commercial use. Check what the model was built on, because a base model's terms can still apply.

### Does YUME run in real time?

Yes, according to its authors. Real-time streaming acceleration through distillation; no frame rate in the model card. This directory has not measured it independently.

### Where can I try YUME?

No hosted version was verified; run the published weights yourself.

### What does YUME take as input?

You give it a text or image to start, keyboard directions for movement and camera turns.

### How do I run YUME?

Following the official instructions: Install requirements.txt; a Windows one-click installer is also provided. Download the weights and set their path in the inference scripts. Run one of the scripts in scripts/inference, for example sample.sh, or sample_5b.sh for the 5B model.

### What are alternatives to YUME?

Similar models in this directory include ABot-World (open weights, permissive license), AlayaWorld (open weights, custom terms) and DreamX-World (open weights, permissive license).

Checked 2026-10-23. Corrections: https://github.com/windflow-labs/world-model-directory