Morning Edition · Saturday, July 18, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
Tongyi Lab's Wan-Dancer Generates Minute-Scale 720p Dance Video From Music
The Apache-2.0 framework separates global keyframe planning from local refinement to extend past the roughly 20-second coherence limit of prior diffusion video across five dance genres.
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab published Wan-Dancer, a hierarchical framework for generating coherent dance video from music at 720p and 30 frames per second over clips longer than a minute, across five dance genres. The paper reports state-of-the-ar…
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