On April 10, it was reported that the multi-modal large model HappyHorse, secretly developed by the Alibaba team, has recently topped international authoritative evaluations. This technological breakthrough has driven the Alibaba-W stock to rise nearly 3% in the morning session, leading the tech sector.

Key Achievements: 1333 Points! Breaking the Global Video Generation Elo Record

As a rising star in the AI video generation field, HappyHorse-1.0 has demonstrated dominant technical capabilities in blind testing arenas:

Clear Leadership: In the text-to-video (no audio) category, it topped with an Elo score of 1332, surpassing the second-place ByteDance Seedance2.0 by 60 points.

High Win Rate Suppression: On April 8, the model's score was updated to 1333 points, achieving an 80% win rate against mainstream models OVI1.1, firmly securing the top position among global open-source video generation models.

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The Behind-the-Scenes Team: Taotian "Future Life Lab" Goes Solo

The anonymous model behind this social media sensation has a fascinating background:

Leadership Team: The model is led by Zhang Di, a former core figure from Kuaishou's KeLing AI, and is built by Taotian Group Future Life Lab.

Organizational Upgrade: The lab has completed its restructuring and has been officially integrated into the AI Innovation Department under the ATH Business Group of Alibaba.

Upcoming Release: According to insiders, HappyHorse has quietly joined the Aliyun BaiLian Platform for internal testing and is expected to be officially released next week.

Industry Trends: April 2026 Marks the "Explosion Month of Intelligent Agents"

With major players like Alibaba, Google, and Meta continuously revealing their plans, the global AI industry has shown three key characteristics in April:

Drastic Reduction in Edge Deployment Barriers:Google Gemma4 has achieved complete offline operation of multi-modal AI on mobile devices for the first time.

Management Agentization:Anthropic’s newly released Claude management agent has increased the efficiency of enterprise-level Agent development by 10 times.

Multi-modal Long Context: Models such as Qwen3.6-Plus are reshaping productivity through millions of context tokens.

Capital Outlook: Focus of Alibaba's Financial Report Shifts to AI Monetization

Alibaba will release its Q4 2026 financial results in May. International investment banks generally have a positive outlook on the growth potential brought by its AI transformation:

Cloud Business: Growth is expected to accelerate to over 40%.

Instant Retail: The loss is turning around, with significant improvement in profitability.

Core Pressure: R&D investment is mainly focused on the continuous iteration of the Qwen large model.

Conclusion: From “Conversation” to “Creation”

When AI is no longer limited to text chat but can generate videos with cinematic quality and autonomously perform tasks, the AI industry is accelerating from the 1.0 era of conversation tools into the 2.0 era of autonomous intelligent agents. Alibaba once again proves its solid position in the global AI top tier with the impressive performance of HappyHorse.