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Alibaba's Wan AI platform for generating video and images from text or reference images, part of the Tongyi generative AI family.
Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
All-in-one AI video toolkit (image-to-video, face/head swap, lip-sync, avatars, voice clone) with a free tier and API for creators.
AI video generator that turns a text prompt into a finished video with script, stock footage, voiceover, subtitles and music.
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
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- ✦Text-to-video generation
- ✦Image-to-video generation
- ✦Text-to-image and image editing
- ✦Open-source model releases for developers
- ✦Part of Alibaba's broader Tongyi AI ecosystem
- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
- ✦Denoising and sharpening models
- ✦Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
- ✦Face enhancement and recovery
- ✦Background removal and colorization
- ✦Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
- ✦Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
- ✦Image-to-video generation
- ✦Face swap and head swap
- ✦Talking-photo lip-sync
- ✦AI avatars
- ✦Voice cloning
- ✦Access to many models (Kling, Wan, Veo, Seedance)
- ✦Developer API
- ✦AI agent with long-term project memory
- ✦Batch editing across multiple clips
- ✦200+ integrated AI models (Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling, Seedance and more)
- ✦Multiplayer collaboration with real-time cursors
- ✦Custom agent creation
- ✦Storyboarding and timeline editing
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
- ✦Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
- ✦Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
- ✦Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
- ✦Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
- →Content creators generating short AI video clips
- →Developers building on open-source Wan model weights
- →Marketers producing quick visual content
- →Researchers experimenting with video diffusion models
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Turn a photo into a talking video
- →Create AI avatar videos
- →Clone a voice for narration
- →Creating social media and YouTube videos
- →Producing faceless videos without filming
- →Turning ideas into first-cut videos fast
- →Generating marketing and ad content
- →Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
- →Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
- →Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
- →Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP