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Lightricks put a 22B video model on Hugging Face in August with a permissive licence, day-one ComfyUI support and no content filter. In a month where Alibaba and ByteDance shipped stronger but closed models, this is the release that changes what adult creators can run themselves.

Alibaba launched Wan 3.0 on 24 August 2026 after a public beta since 6 August: 30-second single-pass clips from text, images, audio, video and now documents. Like 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 before it, it is hosted only. Here is what shipped, what the hosted model does in practice, and what it means for adult creators.

Seedream 5.0 Pro is the best closed image model ByteDance has shipped and a lot of sites claim to offer it uncensored. The model is API-only and moderated; the uncensored offers are older or different models. Here is what the official model does, what the claims are worth, and what to use for adult images instead.

Qwen3.8-27B landed with an Apache 2.0 licence, vision input and a 262K context, and the "uncensored" versions were on Hugging Face the next day. Most of them are abliterations, not fine-tunes. Here is what that distinction means for adult roleplay, and when a real successor to the 3.5 writer tunes is likely.

Meta is back to open weights with Muse Glimmer, a 30B model under Apache 2.0 that runs on one consumer GPU. It was built for tool use, not conversation, and it ships safety-tuned. Whether it ever matters for adult roleplay depends entirely on the fine-tuning community, so here is what they have to work with.