About

Our mission is to advance generative
AI by creating open models
and research that expand creative possibilities and accelerate scientific progress

We are a team of researchers, engineers,
and analysts developing open models
for image and video generation. We share research, code, and models with the
AI community.

5Years of Kandinsky history
10+Publications · EMNLP / NAACL
100+People on the team
6Model generations shipped

History

2021–2022

Malevich / Kandinsky 1.0

1.3B / 12B parameters — text‑to‑image generation at 256×256 resolution. Autoregressive approach, trained on Russian‑language data

2022–2023

Kandinsky 2.0 / 2.1

2B / 3.3B parameters — diffusion‑based generation. Supports 101 languages. Enables inpainting, outpainting, and image editing at resolution up to 768×768

Jul 2023

Kandinsky 2.2

4.8B parameters — generates photorealistic images at 1024×1024 resolution. Supports ControlNet for precise editing and 4‑second video clips

Kandinsky 3.0
Nov 2023

Kandinsky 3.0

11.9B parameters — high‑fidelity image generation with improved text alignment

Kandinsky Video 1.0
Nov 2023

Kandinsky Video 1.0

17.5B parameters — generates 8‑second videos from text. Uses keyframe interpolation at 512×512 resolution

Kandinsky Flash / 3.1
Apr 2024

Kandinsky Flash / 3.1

Flash (11.9B) generates images in just 4 steps — 10× faster than standard diffusion. 3.1 (15.5B) uses Flash as a refiner to boost quality and adds cultural awareness for Russian‑language prompts

May 2024

Kandinsky Video 1.1

17.5B parameters — generates 5.5‑second videos, trained on 4.6M text‑video pairs with captions generated by LLaVA‑1.5

Dec 2024

Kandinsky 4.0

17.5B parameters — generates images and 12‑second videos from text, with audio generation conditioned on video input

Jun 2025

Kandinsky 4.1

14B parameters — refined image generation with improved aesthetics, guided by expert artist feedback

Nov 2025

Kandinsky 5.0

6B / 2B / 19B parameters — new family based on Flow Matching. Image Lite (6B) for HD generation and editing, Video Lite (2B) ranked #1 among open‑source models in its class, and Video Pro (19B) for HD video with strong text and Russian‑concept understanding

Kandinsky 6 Image Pro
Apr 2026

Kandinsky 6 Image Pro

The flagship: a Mixture‑of‑Experts image model, twice as fast as its predecessor, with free professional‑grade editing built in

Oct 2026

Kandinsky 6.0 Video

3B / 29B parameters — foundation models for synchronized video and audio generation. 5‑second clips with 44 kHz audio and lip‑sync from text or an image, with built‑in super‑resolution to Full‑HD. Open source under the MIT license

Team

A research team of engineers, scientists and analysts — presenting at ICML, ICLR, AAAI and OpenTalks.AI, and shipping open models in between

Join us

Open positions across research, engineering and applied ML — we’re always glad to hear from people who want to build generative models in the open