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Tongyi Wan-Animate-2 Goes Open Source, and Alibaba's Character Animation Now Matches Commercial SOTA: Alibaba's Tongyi Wanxiang...
Team open-sourced Wan-Animate-2, an end-to-end character animation framework that runs in real time at 24 fps without skeletal pose extraction. Head-to-head comparisons show it matches closed-source commercial leaders.
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Tongyi Wan-Animate-2 Goes Open Source, and Alibaba's Character Animation Now Matches Commercial SOTA: Alibaba's Tongyi Wanxiang team open-sourced Wan-Animate-2, an end-to-end character animation framework that runs in real time at 24 fps without skeletal pose extraction. Head-to-head comparisons show it matches closed-source commercial leaders.