Alibaba Group Holding's cloud computing arm has introduced its updated artificial intelligence (AI) model, Animate Anyone 2, which the company touts as simplifying the animation of lifelike characters ...

Unlike previous character-animation methods that solely use motion signals, Animate Anyone 2 achieves high-fidelity character image animation by processing both motion and environmental signals ...

Animate Anyone 2 was built on top of the model’s first iteration that was announced in late 2023, focused on generating character videos from still images.