Alibaba's video line has shipped four generations without publishing a single weight

Alibaba launched Wan3.0 on 24 August 2026: thirty seconds of video with sound in a single pass, and an input nobody else takes - a Word file, a spreadsheet, a slide deck, a PDF or a web link, which the model reads and turns into a film. It is a genuinely strong release. It is also the fourth Wan generation in a row with no weights published anywhere. That is the part worth stating plainly, because Wan built its name on the opposite. Wan2.1 in February 2025 and Wan2.2 in July 2025 went out under Apache 2.0 and became reference material for open video generation. Since then Alibaba's served line has moved through 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and now 3.0. We checked the company's own Hugging Face account: the newest files there are refinements of Wan2.2 - Wan-Dancer-14B from 10 July 2026 and Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B from 14 July 2026. Searching the whole of Hugging Face for Wan2.7 returns nothing at all. The gap between what Alibaba runs for paying customers and what Alibaba gives away is now four generations wide. The numbers underneath make this less abstract. The most downloaded Wan repository is not a flagship: it is Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B, the smallest and oldest model of the line, at roughly 242 thousand downloads over thirty days, ahead of both 14-billion-parameter flagships. Second is Wan2.2-TI2V-5B, the version Alibaba built to run a five-second 720p clip in under nine minutes on a single RTX 4090. The audience for open video generation is visibly concentrated in the models that fit on a desktop - and the desktop-sized branch of the line is the one that stopped being updated first. We are not calling this a broken promise. Apache 2.0 grants no claim on future versions, and a company that has just raised about ten billion dollars in a Hong Kong share placement is entitled to decide what it sells and what it gives away. What we can say is what a reader choosing a video model today faces: the best Wan is rented by the second, the best Wan you can own is thirteen months old, and no announcement has stated that this will change. One caveat on our own reporting: Alibaba documents that Wan3.0 is billed per output second and that resolution changes the rate, but the price table on the company's site is rendered by script and we could not read it at source. The figures circulating in trade coverage - roughly five, ten and twenty cents per second for 480P, 720P and 1080P, with a 30 per cent discount to 23 September 2026 - are recorded in our profile as indicative rather than confirmed. The catalogue now carries three profiles from this line: Wan3.0, the closed flagship; Wan2.2-T2V-A14B, the last openly published flagship; and Wan2.2-TI2V-5B, the version for a single graphics card.