Organization

Genmo

Genmo is an AI model developer and research lab headquartered in San Francisco, California3 4. This catalog lists 1 open model release from Genmo, under licenses including the Apache License 2.0.

Documented roles: Model developer · Research lab

Genmo is a San Francisco research company that builds video generation models, which it describes as world models. Its open release is Mochi 1, a text-to-video model published as a research preview in October 2024, and it runs a hosted playground for generating videos.1 2 3 7 5

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Oct 13, 2026

Using this organization’s offerings

Ownership, delivery, and openness answer different questions. Publicly traded does not mean open source; privately held does not mean closed.

The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.

Key facts

Website: genmo.ai (external site: genmo.ai)
Legal name: Genmo Inc.3
Ownership (separate from openness): Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
Legal form: Unknown
Headquarters: San Francisco, California3 4
Founded: Unknown
Sectors: Open models, Research
Careers: Careers page (external site: jobs.ashbyhq.com)

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Genmo released the Mochi 1 preview weights, its video VAE, and inference code under Apache 2.0, and later added a LoRA fine-tuning trainer to the repository. Its announcement and model card do not describe the training data. The playground is a hosted service.7 9 10

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.

Other products

Genmo: other products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Genmo Playground (external site: genmo.ai)	Other	Web app for generating videos from text prompts, labeled on the page as the Mochi 1.1 Playground. It requires logging in or signing up; the page does not state pricing.5	Sep 29, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Model families (1)

MochiModel family

Model releases (1)

Mochi 1 previewModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight

Notable documented facts

Genmo's playground page refers to a Mochi 1.1 model. This catalog found no open-weight release of Mochi 1.1; mochi-1-preview is the only model in Genmo's Hugging Face organization, and the Mochi 1 announcement is the only post on Genmo's blog.5 8 6

What this catalog does not know

Unknown means the sources reviewed for this record do not document it. It is not evidence that something does not exist.

Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.

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U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Genmo's terms of service name Genmo Inc. with a San Francisco, California address and apply California law, with San Francisco County courts as the venue where arbitration does not apply. Its job board lists every open role at "San Francisco HQ". No foreign parent or headquarters was found.3 4

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
Genmo (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
About | Genmo (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
Terms of Service | Genmo (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo Inc. · Official page · published Sep 16, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
Genmo job board (Ashby posting API) (external site: api.ashbyhq.com)
Genmo · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
Genmo Playground (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
Genmo blog (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
Mochi 1: A new SOTA in open text-to-video (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo · Announcement · published Oct 22, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
8.
Genmo on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)
Genmo · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
9.
genmo/mochi-1-preview model card (external site: huggingface.co)
Genmo · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026
10.
genmoai/mochi README (external site: github.com)
Genmo · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
11.
Official careers directory and application links (external site: genmo.ai)
Genmo · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 13, 2026

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USASI. (2026, October 13). Genmo. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/genmo/

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@misc{usasi_genmo,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Genmo},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/genmo/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-13}
}

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