Alibaba’s HappyHorse tops Seedance, offering glimpse into China’s race for AI talent

A new video generation model quietly unveiled by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has overtaken Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s most advanced model, as the world’s top-ranked artificial intelligence video tool based on an evaluation by a benchmark site, offering a glimpse into the AI talent race as the market heats up.The HappyHorse 1.0 model, which was still under internal beta testing, was developed by the Innovation Business Unit under the e-commerce giant’s newly formed Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) business group, a spokeswoman for ATH told the China-morning-post" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="12558" data-entity-type="organization">South China Morning Post on Friday, adding that the unit had more product releases in its pipeline. Alibaba owns the SCMP.The HappyHorse model was currently ranked the world’s top AI model in both text-to-video and image-to-video categories by consultancy Artificial Analysis, ahead of ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 in both metrics.