Chinese tech giant Alibaba has released its open-source video foundation model Wan 2.1, surpassing OpenAI's Sora.Wan 2.1 outperforms existing open-source models and commercial solutions in video generation.Alibaba's suite includes three models for text-to-video, image-to-video, video editing, text-to-image, and video-to-audio.Wan 2.1 employs a new spatio-temporal variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture for video generation.