Tongyi Wan-Animate-2 Goes Open Source, and Alibaba's Character Animation Now Matches Commercial SOTA

Alibaba's Tongyi Wanxiang team has open-sourced Wan-Animate-2, an end-to-end character animation framework that runs at 24 fps in real-time streaming without skeletal pose extraction. Head-to-head comparisons show parity with closed-source commercial leaders.