The newest Wan (open weights) model is Wan 2.2, released on July 28, 2025. It has been 433 days since then, more than a year without a release, so the line is inactive; a new release would bring it back.
How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Every Monday, only when something shipped: the AI models that came out, what each one changed, and which lines are due next.
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Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Alibaba's own numbers.
Open weights again under Apache 2.0: two mixture-of-experts models (text- and image-to-video) and a 5B model that makes 720p video on a single consumer GPU. No later main version, from 2.5 on, has downloadable weights.
Alibaba's video model, first offered on its website and API on 9 Jan 2025; the weights followed on 25 Feb 2025 under Apache 2.0.