Chinese corporation Alibaba has launched an AI model for video generation called Happy Horse. Immediately after its release, the tool topped various industry rankings.
HappyHorse is still in the stable. 🐴
— HappyHorse (@HappyHorseATH) April 10, 2026
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
The neural network topped the Artificial Analysis list for text-to-video conversion, surpassing ByteDance's Seedance 2.0.
Source: Artificial Analysis.
Happy Horse is a product of Alibaba's new Token Hub division and is currently in beta testing. The company plans to provide API access "in the near future."
Previous Alibaba developments under the Wan brand rarely made it into the top 20. The unexpectedly high performance of Happy Horse has 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.
— GMI Cloud (@gmi_cloud) April 8, 2026
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 Horse
Early take: it’s surprisingly good at… https://t.co/hy1eRcCkGZ pic.twitter.com/KyUjy9WIWA
AI video generation 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, Chinese companies have expanded their opportunities, now occupying most of the spots in industry rankings.
In early April, Alibaba released a new version of its flagship video generator Wan, developed by the Tongyi lab. Prior to the launch of Happy Horse, the company had not publicly announced that multiple teams were working on similar tools simultaneously.
The largest e-commerce company in China has made a decisive shift towards AI, aiming to create a general artificial intelligence.
As a reminder, in April, Alibaba's cloud division launched Qwen3.6-Plus.