ModelScope T2V

Alibaba · 2023 · Video Generation · China

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Alibaba
C · CEO & Politics: Eddie Wu — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Video
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: China
K · Key Staffers: Jiuniu Wang (Co-lead author), Yingya Zhang (Corresponding author)
L · Languages: Chinese-primary
M · Model Type: Video Generation
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, CC BY-NC 4.0: non-commercial)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Alibaba's ModelScope text-to-video model (ModelScopeT2V), which evolves Stable Diffusion's text-to-image design with spatio-temporal blocks for consistent frames and smooth motion; its VQGAN, text encoder and denoising UNet total 1.7 billion parameters, 0.5 billion of them for temporal modeling, and it handles varying frame counts. Code and a demo are on ModelScope.
S · Stock / Status: $110 (BABA, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @AlibabaGroup
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Video Generation from Alibaba, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“ModelScope T2V.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/modelscope-t2v.html