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Wan AI is an open video-generation model family from Alibaba’s Wan team that can create and transform videos from text, images, audio, and motion inputs.

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OVERVIEW

What is Wan AI?

Wan AI is a generative video platform and model family developed by Alibaba’s Wan team. It is designed to create and transform video using artificial intelligence, with capabilities that include text-to-video, image-to-video, video editing, character animation, and audio-driven video generation. The platform is aimed at both creative users and developers who want to experiment with AI-generated video.

One of Wan AI’s biggest advantages is its focus on open models. The Wan2.2 family makes its model weights and inference code publicly available under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing developers and researchers to download the models, run them locally, and integrate them into their own workflows instead of relying exclusively on a hosted video-generation service.

For creators, Wan AI can be useful for producing social media videos, advertising concepts, cinematic visuals, animation, visual effects, and experimental content. For developers and researchers, its open-source approach makes it particularly interesting for building custom video-generation applications and experimenting with generative video models.

Key features

  • Text-to-video: Wan2.2 can generate videos from written prompts at 480p and 720p resolutions.
  • Image-to-video: The model can animate a supplied image and generate a video while following a text prompt.
  • Speech-to-video: Wan2.2 S2V can use speech or audio together with visual inputs to create video.
  • Character animation: Wan2.2 Animate can animate or replace characters while preserving movement and expressions.
  • 720p generation: The TI2V-5B model supports both text-to-video and image-to-video generation at 720p and 24fps.
  • Open-source models: Wan2.2's model weights and inference code are publicly available under Apache 2.0.

How you can use it

Wan AI can be used for AI-generated video, cinematic content, image animation, character animation, creative experimentation, visual effects, advertising, social media content, and AI video research.

Plans & pricing

The core Wan2.2 models are released under the Apache 2.0 license and can be downloaded and run independently. The official Wan website also provides access to the models through its online platform, but I could not verify a current public paid pricing structure for wan.video.

The strengths & trade-offs

Pros

  • The core Wan2.2 models are openly available under Apache 2.0.
  • It supports several different video-generation workflows.
  • The 5B model can run on consumer-grade GPUs such as the RTX 4090.
  • The models support 720p video at 24fps.
  • Developers can run the models locally instead of depending entirely on a hosted service.

Cons

  • Running the larger models locally requires substantial GPU resources.
  • The local setup requires technical knowledge and multiple software dependencies.
  • The hosted website's current pricing structure is not clearly documented publicly.
  • Wan AI is more technically oriented than simple consumer video-generation tools.

Frequently asked questions

What is Wan AI?

Wan AI is a generative video AI platform and open model family developed by Alibaba's Wan team.

Is Wan AI free?

The open Wan2.2 models are available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be downloaded and run locally.

Can Wan AI generate videos from text?

Yes, Wan2.2 includes dedicated text-to-video models that generate 480p and 720p videos from prompts.

Can Wan AI animate images?

Yes, Wan2.2 includes image-to-video models that generate videos from still images and prompts.

Is Wan AI open source?

Yes. Wan2.2's model weights and inference code are publicly released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Can Wan AI run locally?

Yes, developers can download the models and inference code and run them on their own hardware.

What GPU is required for Wan AI?

Requirements depend on the model, but the Wan2.2 TI2V-5B model is designed to run on consumer GPUs such as the RTX 4090, while larger models require substantially more VRAM.