Wan 2.5 Preview

• 🆕 Alibaba's Wan 2.5 image-to-video preview, released September 2025.
• 👁️ Animates a still first frame into motion video.
• 🔧 Accepts a first frame plus an optional text prompt.
• 🎯 Photorealistic generation with strong subject coherence across frames.
• 🏢 Built by Alibaba's Wan video team.
• 📚 Part of the broader Wan generative video family.
• 🆕 Released as a preview ahead of later Wan versions.

Alibaba

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Wan 2.5 Preview is the image-to-video member of Alibaba's Wan generative video family, released in September 2025. It takes a static first frame plus an optional text prompt and animates it into a photorealistic clip, with an emphasis on subject coherence and stability across frames. Alibaba Cloud documents the image-to-video workflow around supplying a first frame from which motion is generated.

As the catalog notes, the model targets photorealistic generation with strong subject coherence across a sequence, positioning it as the preview-stage entry in the Wan image-to-video line.

The family has since advanced beyond this preview, with later versions released under the Wan banner. Wan 2.6 arrived in December 2025, and Wan 2.7 followed in April 2026, each succeeding the 2.5 generation.

As a preview release, Wan 2.5 represents an earlier iteration of Alibaba's image-to-video approach, with subsequent versions continuing the family's development.