NInikkilopez·May 14, 2025Submission
Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
4 points · Open discussionWan-Video
Wan2.1
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Wan-Video / Wan2.1
Wan2.1
Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
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5 sourcesWan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
3 points · Open discussionAnother blow to Sora.
This time, Wan 2.1 is better at physics and maintains consistency and is the current state of the art.
Best part is that it is 'open source': [0]
[0] https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.1
In Alibaba Open Source Large-Scale Video Generative Models: Wan2.1HF:https://huggingface.co/Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-14B
Github:https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.1
Wan2.1, a comprehensive and open suite of video foundation models that pushes the boundaries of video generation. Wan2.1 offers these key features:
- SOTA Performance: Wan2.1 consistently outperforms existing open-source models and state-of-the-art commercial solutions across multiple benchmarks.
- Supports Consumer-grade GPUs: The T2V-1.3B model requires only 8.19 GB VRAM, making it compatible with almost all consumer-grade GPUs. It can generate a 5-second 480P video on an RTX 4090 in about 4 minutes (without optimization techniques like quantization). Its performance is even comparable to some closed-source models.
- Multiple Tasks: Wan2.1 excels in Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Video Editing, Text-to-Image, and Video-to-Audio, advancing the fiel
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d of video generation.
- Visual Text Generation: Wan2.1 is the first video model capable of generating both Chinese and English text, featuring robust text generation that enhances its practical applications.
- Powerful Video VAE: Wan-VAE delivers exceptional efficiency and performance, encoding and decoding 1080P videos of any length while preserving temporal information, making it an ideal foundation for video and image generation.
Wan 2.1: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
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