Alibaba’s new open-source AI video-generation model turns photos into film-quality clips
The Wan2.2-S2V model generates expressive, film-quality character videos from an audio clip and a static image
Powered by advanced audio-driven animation technology, the Wan2.2-S2V model “delivers lifelike character performances, ranging from natural dialogue to musical performances, and seamlessly handles multiple characters within a scene”, Alibaba Cloud said on Wednesday.
Wan2.2-S2V could be used by professional content creators to “capture precise visual representations tailored to specific storytelling and design requirements”, the company said. That enhancement was attributed to the model’s large-scale audiovisual data set tailored to film and television production scenarios, it added.
The latest Wan2.2 variant reflects how Chinese AI companies are continuing to narrow the gap with their US peers through the open-source approach, which makes the source code of AI models available for third-party developers to use, modify and distribute.
