- Alibaba will open API testing for its AI video model HappyHorse to enterprise clients on April 27, with a commercial launch planned for May.
- The model will challenge ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, marking an escalation in the rivalry among Chinese tech giants in the AI video sector.
Alibaba announced Monday that its AI (artificial intelligence) video generation model, HappyHorse, will open for testing on April 27.
The initial API testing will be available to invited enterprise clients via Alibaba Cloud's Bailian platform, followed by a planned commercial roll-out in May this year.
Led by the Alibaba token Hub (ATH) business group, the multimodal large model has recently drawn widespread industry attention in the global AI video generation space.
In an evaluation by Artificial Analysis earlier this month, the model quickly topped industry rankings.
HappyHorse ranked first in the text-to-video category with an exceptionally high score of 1,332, pulling ahead of its competitors.
Meanwhile, the model set an all-time high record of 1,391 in the image-to-video category, surpassing rival products such as Kuaishou's Kling.
Alibaba's move to accelerate the product's deployment comes at a critical moment as top Chinese tech giants engage in fierce competition in the AI video generation arena.
Just last week, major rival ByteDance fully opened its Seedance 2.0 series API services globally.
Following industry pioneer OpenAI's announcement last month to shut down its Sora model, Chinese tech firms are accelerating efforts to capture the massive void in the global AI video market.
Leveraging a generation cost of 1 yuan ($0.15) per second and strict copyright protection standards, ByteDance has already taken the lead in targeting industries such as film, television, and marketing.
Facing increasingly fierce market competition, Alibaba has deeply integrated core resources across its platform technology, Tongyi lab, and Taotian technology teams for collaborative development.
The upcoming official commercial launch in May will test the HappyHorse model's business potential in actual industrial-grade creative scenarios.
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