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Alibaba launches AI models for video with likeness, voice

Alibaba has launched Wan2.6, an updated series of AI visual generation models, on December 16 in Hangzhou.

Wan2.6 allows users to appear in AI-generated videos using their own likeness and voice, and supports multi-shot storytelling with extended durations.

The series features a new reference-to-video generation model, Wan2.6-R2V, which lets users upload videos of people, animals, or objects, and generate new scenes that preserve the original appearance and voice.

Alibaba said Wan2.6-R2V is the first model in China to enable this type of consistent visual and audio insertion for video creation.

🔗 Source: Alibaba

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