Wan 2.5 Preview

• 🎬 Alibaba image-to-video model animating a first frame into clips
• 👁️ Photorealistic generation with subject coherence across frames
• 💬 Accepts an optional text prompt to guide motion
• 🏢 Built by Alibaba's Wan video team, released September 2025
• 🆕 A preview-stage release in the Wan 2.5 generation
• 🆕 Later succeeded by Wan 2.6 and Wan 2.7 image-to-video

Alibaba

Alibaba Group is a Chinese multinational technology company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Originally built around e-commerce and cloud computing, Alibaba has become one of the most prolific contributors to open-weight AI research,…

Wan 2.5 Preview is the image-to-video member of Alibaba's Wan family, released in September 2025. It animates a supplied first-frame image into short video, guided by an optional text prompt. As described in this catalog, it emphasizes photorealistic generation with strong subject coherence across frames, the look the broader Wan line is known for.

Within the same image-to-video line, Wan 2.5 Preview was later succeeded by Wan 2.6, and then by Wan 2.7 in 2026. A parallel Wan 2.5 Preview handles text-to-video, while Wan 2.1 Pro represents an earlier image-to-video offering in the family.

As its name indicates, this is a preview release rather than the family's final image-to-video flagship. Users seeking the most current image-to-video capabilities from this lineage should consult the later Wan 2.6 and Wan 2.7 releases.