Alibaba ships Wan 3.0 with 30-second clips and document-to-video
Alibaba
Alibaba moved Wan 3.0 out of beta around Aug 24-25, 2026, doubling maximum clip length to 30 seconds and adding document-to-video: it reads DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF and Markdown inputs alongside text, image, audio and video references. Pricing carries a 30% API discount through Sept 24, 2026, tied to a recent $10.2B Hong Kong placement earmarked for compute and Qwen.
Why it matters
First widely-deployed video model to natively consume documents and spreadsheets as generation inputs, and the first major Chinese video model at 30-second single-pass length — a step-change in report-to-video workflows and a direct competitive move against Veo 3.1 and Sora-class systems.
Importance: 3/5
first deployed video model with 30s single-pass length + native document-to-video