# Alibaba Launches Wan3.0 Video Generation From Text, Images, Audio, Documents

> Alibaba has released Wan3.0, a video generator that produces up to 30 seconds of footage in a single pass and, unusually, accepts five kinds of input: text, images, audio, existing video, and even documents like PDFs, slide decks and spreadsheets, up to 50 pages. Feed it a report and it can turn the material into a clip, with smart duration suggestions and an extension feature to continue a scene. The company is touting big quality gains where video models usually stumble: more varied and lifelike human faces, consistent characters and props across scenes, and natural micro-expressions. Pricing is aggressive, from $0.05 per second at 480p up to $0.20 per second at 1080p, which puts a full 30-second HD clip at about $6. The context is a tightening race. Alibaba says its video model climbed to number two globally as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance slipped in the rankings. Rough edges remain, notably audio texture and on-screen text, but the multi-input, document-to-video angle is a genuinely novel wrinkle in a crowded field.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Alibaba Cloud Community · Published Monday, August 17, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Alibaba has released Wan3.0, a video generator that produces up to 30 seconds of footage in a single pass and, unusually, accepts five kinds of input: text, images, audio, existing video, and even documents like PDFs, slide decks and spreadsheets, up to 50 pages. Feed it a report and it can turn the material into a clip, with smart duration suggestions and an extension feature to continue a scene. The company is touting big quality gains where video models usually stumble: more varied and lifelike human faces, consistent characters and props across scenes, and natural micro-expressions. Pricing is aggressive, from $0.05 per second at 480p up to $0.20 per second at 1080p, which puts a full 30-second HD clip at about $6. The context is a tightening race. Alibaba says its video model climbed to number two globally as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance slipped in the rankings. Rough edges remain, notably audio texture and on-screen text, but the multi-input, document-to-video angle is a genuinely novel wrinkle in a crowded field.

## Source

[Read the full story at Alibaba Cloud Community](https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/wan3-0-30-second-ai-video-generation-from-any-input_603452)

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