Alibaba's Wan2.2-Animate-2 14B lands under Apache 2.0

Alibaba's Wan team has published Wan2.2-Animate-2 14B on Hugging Face, adding another entry to its expanding lineup of open video models. The release is a 14-billion-parameter dense model — not a mixture-of-experts design — released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.

The model is built for animation-oriented generation, supporting both image-to-video and text-to-video workflows. Its primary focus is turning a still image into motion, a task that has become one of the more competitive corners of open-source generative video.

Why it matters

Apache 2.0 licensing is the notable detail here. Many capable video models arrive with usage restrictions, so a permissive license lowers the barrier for developers and studios who want to build on, fine-tune, or deploy the model commercially without legal friction.

• 14B dense parameters, no MoE
• Image-to-video and text-to-video modalities
• Apache 2.0 license
• Part of Alibaba's ongoing Wan 2.2 series

As the Wan family continues to iterate, the Animate branch signals Alibaba's intent to compete specifically on character and image-driven animation rather than general text-to-video alone. Full details and weights are available on the model's Hugging Face page.