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Alibaba makes AI model for video, image generation publicly available
Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 is now publicly available - or open source - in a move likely to increase its uptake and intensify competition in AI.
Alibaba open sources its video-generation AI model
Chinese cloud provider Alibaba has released four versions of its video-generation AI model as open source, allowing users to download and run them for free on capable PCs.
Alibaba makes AI video generation model free to use globally
Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.
Alibaba’s new Wan 2.1 text-to-video AI is unbelievable
Chinese giant Alibaba released Wan 2.1 and made it open-source: It's a text-to-video AI service similar to OpenAI's Sora.
Alibaba to release open-source version of video generating AI model
Alibaba will release an open-source version of its video and image-generating artificial intelligence model, Wan 2.1, the Chinese tech giant said in a post on X on Tuesday. The company will give full details in a recorded video at 11 p.
Alibaba unveils Wan 2.1: Advanced AI model for video generation now open-source
P, and I2V-14B-480P. The T2V models generate videos from text, while the I2V models convert images into videos. Notably, the T2V-1.3B model can run on consumer-grade GPUs with just 8.19GB of VRAM, generating a five-second 480p video in four minutes on an Nvidia RTX 4090.
Alibaba publishes video AI models as open source
Alibaba Cloud publishes four video AI models as open source. Wan2.1 should be able to compete with the big players from the USA.
Alibaba Releases Open-Source Wan 2.1 Suite of AI Video Generation Models, Claimed to Outperform OpenAI’s Sora
The new Alibaba video AI models are hosted on Alibaba's Wan team's Hugging Face page. The model pages also detail the Wan 2.1 suite of large language models (LLMs). There are four models in total — T2V-1.3B, T2V-14B, I2V-14B-720P, and I2V-14B-480P. The T2V is short for text-to-video while the I2V stands for image-to-video.
Alibaba Cloud releases AI video gen models as open source
First releasing its Qwen 7B open source AI model in 2023, Alibaba’s models have consistently topped the HuggingFace Open LLM leaderboards, it said. More than 100,000 Qwen derivative models have been developed on HuggingFace, making it one of the largest AI model families in the world.
Alibaba offers free access to its AI model that can generate realistic video and images
Alibaba is giving people free access to its generative artificial intelligence models that can produce highly realistic videos and images from both text and image input. The company has announced that four variants of its Wan 2.
Alibaba makes Sora-style video models open source, as tech giant shows AI capabilities
Move covers four models of the Wan2.1 series, the latest version of Alibaba Cloud’s video foundational model Tongyi Wanxiang.
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