{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-10-25T23:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-24-wan-3-0/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-24-wan-3-0/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-08-24-wan-3-0","date":"2026-08-24","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Alibaba Wan 3.0 video model","deck":null,"takeaway":"On Aug 24, 2026 Alibaba Cloud made Wan 3.0 generally available on Model Studio: up to 30-second clips at up to 1080p in one pass, native sound and multilingual voices, and inputs from text, images, audio, video, PDFs, slides and web pages.","category":"media-generation","category_label":"Media generation","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Alibaba Cloud: video generation model Wan 3.0 officially launched","url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/news/product/video-generation-model-wan30-officially-launched-nsb","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"alibabacloud.com"},{"n":2,"title":"The Next Web: Alibaba launches Wan 3.0 video model after share sale (Aug 24)","url":"https://thenextweb.com/news/alibaba-wan3-video-model-after-share-sale","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"thenextweb.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-25","updated":"2026-10-25","orgs":["Alibaba"],"title":"Alibaba launches Wan 3.0: closed-weight video model with 30-second 1080p clips, native audio and document or web-page inputs","summary":"On Aug 24, 2026 Alibaba Cloud made Wan 3.0 generally available on Model Studio: up to 30-second clips at up to 1080p in one pass, native sound and multilingual voices, and inputs from text, images, audio, video, PDFs, slides and web pages. Unlike Wan 2.2, the weights are closed. By late October it ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' text-to-video leaderboard.","key_facts":["GA on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Aug 24, 2026 after a public beta from early August (application-based); API callable without applying","Up to 30 s per generation (Wan 2.7: 15 s), up to 1080p; consistent characters, props, layout and motion graphics across the clip","Native audio with synced facial micro-expressions and multilingual voice; inputs: text, images, audio, video, documents (PDF, PowerPoint) and web pages; up to 10 images, 5 videos and 5 audio clips as references","Price per second: CNY 0.3 / 0.6 / 1.2 for 480p / 720p / 1080p (TNW: $0.05 / $0.10 / $0.20); failed generations are free","Closed weights: Wan 2.2 (July 2025) was the last open-sourced Wan flagship (TNW)","Context (TNW): launched days after Alibaba's ~$10.2B Hong Kong share placement earmarked for AI","Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard (read 2026-10-25): #1, Elo 1175"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["video-generation","audio-video","china","alibaba","wan","closed-weights"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nAlibaba's Tongyi Lab moved Wan 3.0 from beta to general availability on Aug 24, 2026. The model doubles clip length to 30 seconds,\nadds sound and voices generated with the picture, and accepts unusual inputs such as slide decks and web pages, which it turns into\nvideo. It is sold per second through Model Studio's API.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nWan had been the leading open-weight video family; Wan 3.0 keeps its weights closed, part of a wider 2026 shift by Chinese labs\ntoward closed flagships. It later topped the main independent text-to-video leaderboard.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-09-28-kling-4-0","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-28-kling-4-0/","date":"2026-09-28","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Kuaishou's Kling unveils Kling 4.0","deck":"30-second clips, 10 keyframes, ahead of possible HK listing","takeaway":"30-second coherent clips with keyframe control move AI video from short shots toward full scenes; Chinese companies (Kling, Seedance, Wan, Hailuo) now lead many video leaderboards, as TechCrunch noted in July.","category":"media-generation","category_label":"Media generation","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":5,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-10-16","orgs":["Kuaishou","Kling AI"]},{"id":"2026-07-31-seedance-2-5","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-31-seedance-2-5/","date":"2026-07-31","date_precision":"day","short_title":"ByteDance Seedance 2.5 video model","deck":null,"takeaway":"Seedance 2.5 is one of the two or three video models most creators used in the second half of 2026, and the 4K version marks a push from social clips toward professional production.","category":"media-generation","category_label":"Media generation","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":3,"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-25","updated":"2026-10-25","orgs":["ByteDance"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[{"id":"wan-3-0","name":"Wan 3.0","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/wan-3-0/"}],"changes":[{"date":"2026-10-25","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-10-25","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-10-25","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-25"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":116,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":55,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":146,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":85,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}