# The HappyHorse 1.0 model was developed by the Innovation Business Unit under the e-commerce giant’s newly formed Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) business.

*genai · news · 2026-04-10 · South China Morning Post*

## Key points

- Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.0 has surpassed ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 as the top AI video model.
- HappyHorse 1.0 is still in internal beta and developed by Alibaba's new Token Hub business group.
- Artificial Analysis ranks HappyHorse first in both text-to-video and image-to-video categories globally.
- Zhang Di, who recently rejoined Alibaba, led the development of HappyHorse after a five-year absence.

**Companies:** Alibaba Group Holding, ByteDance
**Countries:** China

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