Wan 2.1 (Alibaba)
FeaturedSelf-HostableCategory: video • Released 2025
Apache 2.0-licensed open-weight video generation model with local and hosted execution options.
Wan 2.1 is an open-weight video generation model family. The official repository states that the models are licensed under Apache 2.0; the license does not include compute, storage, electricity, or hosted inference.
Core Capabilities & Features
Ideal for practitioners focused on Local private video generation, Custom fine-tuning, VFX production pipelines.
Self-hostable via Docker or local GPU (macOS, Linux, Windows).Hardware / setup: Nvidia GPU with 12GB–16GB VRAM; Linux/Windows with CUDA support
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