Alibaba’s New AI Video Generator Joins Growing Group of Sora Competitors

It’s a day that ends in Y, so a new AI video generator is joining the growing throng of similar tools. Alibaba is the latest to join the field with its new text-to-video model, part of its Tongyi Wanxiang portfolio. The AI ​​video tool, announced at the Alibaba Cloud Apsara Conference, was just one part of an avalanche of new AI options from the Chinese tech giant, including more than 100 new large language models (LLMs),

Tongyi Wanxiang is Alibaba’s suite of synthetic media generation models, which started last year with an AI image maker. The new tool will produce high-quality videos from text prompts in both Chinese and English, as well as still images. Alibaba executives boasted that the company has one of the most advanced Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architectures, allowing it to create videos that maintain their quality regardless of the style requested by the user, including realistic live-action and many animation styles.