Wan 2.1

Alibaba · Wan (open weights) line · video · open weights

Released January 9, 2025Replaced by Wan 2.2

Wan 2.1 was released by Alibaba on January 9, 2025, as an open-weights video model in the Wan (open weights) line.

Release 1 of 2 in the Wan (open weights) line.
The first release in this line.
Replaced by Wan 2.2 on July 28, 2025, 200 days later.

What changed

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.

Sources: GitHub (Wan-Video) · Alibaba Cloud · Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

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Where the Wan (open weights) line stands

Wan 2.2 is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

Wan (open weights)

Alibaba · video line · open weights

Latest: Wan 2.2 · Jul 28, 2025

InactiveNo release in over a year

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.

What changed in Wan 2.2 →

Days since last release

453

days

Recent gaps

Wan 2.2 · Jul 2025

200

Every Wan (open weights) release

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Jul 28, 2025Wan 2.2
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