Chinese cloud provider Alibaba has released four versions of its video-generation AI model as open source, allowing users to download and run them for free on capable PCs.

The Chinese giant said it is open sourcing four models that are part of its Wan2.1 series, the latest version of the company's foundational AI model that can generate images and video from text and image inputs.

Alibaba has launched Wan 2.1, its latest suite of AI-powered video generation models, making them open-source for academic and commercial use. The new models, hosted on Hugging Face, offer a range of capabilities including text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) generation,