# LAION Releases an 80-Million-Video Open Dataset With 10 Million Hours of Footage

The group pulled 1.3 billion video links from CommonCrawl, downloaded 80 million videos, and published 55 million clips with synthetic video and audio captions under a research-only license.

- Published: 2026-09-01T06:29:06.347Z
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The research group LAION has published BVD, the Big Video Dataset, an open corpus for multimodal pretraining across video, audio and images. The accompanying paper describes 4.7 billion candidate video links extracted from CommonCrawl dumps…

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