The Chinese corporation Alibaba has unveiled an AI model for video generation named Happy Horse. Immediately after its release, the tool secured top positions in industry rankings.
HappyHorse is still in the stable. 🐴
No official website yet — anything you’ve seen out there isn’t us.
We’re part of Alibaba’s ATH AI Innovation Unit, and when we’re ready, you’ll know. Stay tuned.#HappyHorse #Alibaba #ATH
— HappyHorse (@HappyHorseATH) April 10, 2026
The neural network topped the Artificial Analysis list for text-to-video conversion, surpassing ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0.
Happy Horse is a product of Alibaba’s new division, Alibaba Token Hub. The tool is currently in beta testing. The company plans to provide access via API “in the near future.”
Previous developments by Alibaba under the Wan brand rarely made it into the top 20. The unexpectedly high results of Happy Horse have sparked active discussions among Chinese AI specialists and investors.
Spent 2 hours on Artificial Analysis’s video comparison page, and Happy Horse kept showing up.
So we recorded a few matchups:
— Veo 3.1 Lite vs Happy Horse
— Kling v3 vs Happy Horse
— SkyReel v4 vs Happy Horse
— PixVerse v6 vs Happy HorseEarly take: it’s surprisingly good at… https://t.co/hy1eRcCkGZ pic.twitter.com/KyUjy9WIWA
— GMI Cloud (@gmi_cloud) April 8, 2026
Video generation using AI is a highly competitive field for developers, as it is one of the few areas of artificial intelligence with a clear monetization model.
Following OpenAI’s exit from this segment, opportunities for Chinese companies have expanded: they now occupy most of the positions in industry rankings.
In early April, Alibaba released a new version of its flagship video generator Wan, developed by the Tongyi laboratory. Before the release of Happy Horse, the company had not publicly announced that multiple teams were working on similar tools in parallel.
The largest e-commerce company in China has made a decisive shift towards AI. It has set a goal to create a general artificial intelligence.
Earlier in April, the cloud division of the Chinese tech giant Alibaba launched Qwen3.6-Plus.