Morning Edition · Saturday, July 18, 2026Published at 2:03 AM EDT · New York
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab Releases Wan-Dancer for Minute-Scale Music-to-Dance Video
The hierarchical model generates coherent 720p, 30-frames-per-second clips over a minute across five dance genres, released under an Apache 2.0 license.
Tongyi Lab, part of Alibaba, has published Wan-Dancer, a framework that generates dance video from music at 720p and 30 frames per second, coherent over more than a minute, across Chinese classical, K-pop, street, tap, and Latin styles. The…
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