One of the brilliant ideas that helped DeepSeek go viral was the Chinese company’s decision to make it open-source. That meant anyone could install DeepSeek AI on their computer for free without worrying about the official DeepSeek apps for iPhone or Android.
Well-known Chinese giant Alibaba is following in DeepSeek’s footsteps with a different type of AI software that also happens to be very exciting. Alibaba made its text-to-video AI service called “Wan” open-source on Wednesday. Wan competes directly against OpenAI’s Sora, an impressive AI video generation tool that was first unveiled last year and released a few months ago.
Specifically, we’re looking at the Wan 2.1 AI model, which will let users create videos with text, images, and even other videos in their prompts. Wan won’t just challenge OpenAI’s pricing model for Sora, but also OpenAI’s performance. Plus, Wan will be available for free because it is open-source. And perhaps most importantly, Wan 2.1 also tops the VBench leaderboard when it comes to performance. The videos it generates are so good, it’s hard to believe they were made by a free AI app.
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