Alibaba open-sources a 14-billion-parameter video model under Apache 2.0, and it immediately tops the VBench leaderboard. For the first time, a state-of-the-art video model can run locally on consumer hardware with just 8GB of VRAM. The ComfyUI community adopts it overnight. For independent filmmakers who want to run their own pipeline without subscriptions or API costs, this changes everything. The democratization of AI video takes its biggest step forward.