HunyuanVideo Review — Tencent's 13B Open-Source Video Model: VBench SOTA at Launch, 12,000 GitHub Stars, and a License That Excludes Europe

HunyuanVideo launched December 3, 2024 as the largest open-source video generation model ever released, topping VBench and building a 12,000-star GitHub community within weeks. HunyuanVideo-1.5 (November 2025, 8.3B params) democratized access to consumer GPUs with 1080p super-resolution and 10-second generation. The model family's Tencent Hunyuan Community License explicitly excludes the EU, UK, and South Korea. No official MCP server. Rating 4/5.