FastWan-QAD Video Generation: 5-Second Clip in 1.8s on Single RTX 5090

Sky Computing Lab released FastWan-QAD, a high-speed video generation series using Quantization-Aware Distillation (QAD) trained on FastVideo. The key selling point: extreme speed — generating a 5-second 480P video in just 1.8 seconds on a single RTX 5090, tens of times faster than traditional methods. QAD lets large models 'teach' smaller models to be leaner while preserving quality. Weights, code, and blog posts are open-sourced for free use.