The Asian group Alibaba He launched his own tool of generative artificial intelligence for Create videos from text and/or images. Is called Wan Video And it is available for any user for free, although it also offers an UPGRAINE with advanced functionalities.
While there is already a wide range of AI tools for this purpose, not many are accessible. In addition, Wan achieves a Professional qualityand allows to generate Hyperrealist animations, speakers and synchronized dubbingamong many other options. Its version 2.1 is from open source and anyone can access through GITHUB. This was announced by the company through an X post:
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What is Wan Video and how it works
Wan Video is a content generation platform per developed under the umbrella Alibaba Cloudwhich is presented as an intuitive solution for the creation of hyperrealistic videos through advanced automatic generation techniques. Users can access a set of tools that include realistic animations, parent avatars, synchronized dubbing and production of videos based on descriptive images or texts.
This platform uses large language models (LLM) optimized for audiovisual tasks, such as Wanxiang, its main engine, which allows you to interpret text prompts, transforming them into video clips that include natural movements, precise facial expressions and voices that sound authentically human.
Main features of Wan Video
Among the most outstanding features of WAN Video, we highlight:
Generates Videos from text or images (Using an image as the first frame and combining it with a prompt to generate the video), in addition to starting and end frames.
Create digital avatars: Using a simple image, users can give life to an avatar that speaks and moves realistically. This technology is especially useful for marketing, education and entertainment.
Hyperrealist models: Thanks to the training of multimodal visual language models, it manages to reproduce details such as lighting, skin textures and lip movements with amazing precision.
EDITION AND PERSONALIZATION: Users can customize the tone of voice, language, facial expression and gestures of avatar.
Complex movements: It stands out in the generation of realistic videos that have extensive body movements, complex rotations, dynamic scene and fluid camera movements. Some examples are hip-hop dance, cycling, waltz dance, boxing and motorcycle races.
Physical simulation: It generates videos that precisely simulate the physical laws of the real world and realistic interactions between objects.
Collaborative production: It allows real -time collaboration between teams, facilitating work in distance content projects.
In addition, the official documentation details cases of business use, showing how Wan Video can be integrated into marketing, sales and customer service work to automate the production of visual and audiovisual content.
How to use Wan Video
To start using WAN Video, just register for free on its official platform. You can enter through your Google or Github account. Once inside, you already access the tool, which has a Very intuitive interfacesimilar to those that already exist in the market, as you can see in the following image:
There you can select the aspect ratio, include sound effects and use an integrated option that improves the prompts automatically with the help of AI To optimize the results. You also have a user guide in which you explain how to generate videos, with examples of PROMPTS
Wan Video It works with a loan system. It has a 100% free planwith limited functionalities and a bit slow. The second option is the PRO PLANavailable by $ 60 a yearwhich offers 300 monthly credits, the possibility of processing two video tasks instantaneously, managing up to three video tasks and three of tail image, and downloading images without water marks. Soon it will also allow discharge without water marks. Users of this plan keep free access to style and frame palettes, and will have the loan rollover function in future updates.
Finally, the Premium plan has a cost of 240 dollars a yearincludes 1200 monthly credits, allows to process up to four video tasks instantly, keep up up to eight video and five image tasks, and grants priority in access to new functions. As in the Pro Plan, users can download images and soon videos without water marks.
Competitive advantages over other platforms
Although, as we explain at the beginning, there are several AI tools for images and video in the market, some of the advantages that we can highlight of WAM are:
Higher realism: It achieves a quality close to professional production, ideal for commercial applications.
Accessibility: Its freeemium model allows Startups, SMEs and independent creators to access cutting -edge technology without large initial investments, although it is limited access, since the amount of videos that can be made for free is limited.
Production speed (in payment models): Thanks to its optimized engines, the rendering time is lower than that of other similar platforms.
Multilingualism and cultural adaptability: It produces content in multiple languages, respecting cultural nuances and local idioms.
API integrations: For companies with specific needs, WAN Video offers API integrations, which facilitates its use on eCommerce, online education and digital marketing platforms.
An additional aspect is the Possibility of combining Wan Video with other Alibaba Cloud productsas content storage systems and data processing, to climb marketing video projects efficiently.
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