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Ugh hate they used this name

You can call it Wanxiang (万相, ten thousand pictures) if you want. Similarly, Qwen is Qianwen (千问, one thousand questions).

Its original name was WanX, but the gen ai community found that to be too funny / unfortunate, so they changed it to just Wan.

Re: Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3

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Arguably most interesting facts about the new Wan 2.2 model:

- they are now using a 27B MoE architecture (with two 14B experts, for low level and high level detail), which were usually only used for autoregressive LLMs rather than diffusion models

- the smaller 5B model supports up to 720p24 video and runs on 24 GB of VRAM, e.g. an RTX 4090, a consumer graphics card

- if their benchmarks are reliable, the model performance is SOTA even compared to closed source models

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