Chinese tech giant Alibaba is back in the headlines as the company has launched an upgrade to its open-source video-generating AI model. The company has added advanced avatar capabilities to push the limits of what AI-generated video can do.
The updated model, called Wan2.2-S2V, can turn a single portrait photo into what the company calls “film-quality avatars” that can speak, sing, and perform on command. Announced on Tuesday, the new version adds speech-to-video functionality and builds on Alibaba’s existing video generation system.
