Alibaba Group Holding’s AI and cloud computing unit on Wednesday released the Wan2.2-S2V tool, its latest open-source artificial intelligence model that generates expressive, film-quality character videos from a static image and an audio clip. The new model forms part of Alibaba Cloud’s Wan2.2 family, which the company last month touted as the AI industry’s first open-source large video-generation models incorporating the so-called Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. Hangzhou-based Alibaba...