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HappyHorse

AI-powered video creation

Exploring the next paradigm of AI-powered video creation.HappyHorse 1.1 & HorsePower AI Cinema Awards now live! Discord: https://t.co/I7cuzkTZuR
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HappyHorse is an AI video creation platform for generating and editing videos , aimed at creators, marketers, and product teams who need to turn an idea into finished footage without a full production pipeline. The product covers text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, and video editing , and the underlying model produces 1080p output with native lip-sync across 7 languages , which makes it usable for dialogue scenes, ad work, and short-form social content rather than just B-roll. The launch matters because the model behind the app is already known territory in the AI video race. Alibaba Group anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1.0, which rose to the top of an AI model leaderboard and attracted a lot of attention on social media , and on April 9, 2026, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd revealed it created the "Happy Horse" video AI model . This consumer-facing site is how that research now reaches end users directly, alongside API distribution. The team comes from inside Alibaba's video AI effort: HappyHorse was developed by Alibaba's Taotian Future Life Lab (led by Zhang Di, former Vice President of Kuaishou and Head of Kling Technology). This team joined Alibaba at the end of 2025, focusing on AI video generation . The launch tweet leans on a playful metaphor about the "horse" of imagination that creators carry around, and the video sketches a mock research center chasing that horse. Read past the bit, the pitch is straightforward, which is faster iteration from prompt or still image to a usable clip, with audio and motion handled in one pass instead of stitched together after the fact.
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Kavitha R.22d ago

The horse metaphor stretched longer than my last standup. I respect the commitment to the bit though.

Tomasz Wojcik22d ago

Whoever edited the launch reel knows what they're doing, the cuts on the painter shot hit. Whoever wrote the copy needed one more pass.

Priya S.22d ago

Three weeks out from my own launch and now I'm rewriting my entire announcement because of this horse thing. Thanks I hate it (I love it).

Amani O.22d ago

ok wait, is the product actually called HappyHorse or is that a placeholder that escaped containment.

Marcus Adeyemi22d ago

My horse has been waiting inside me for so long it's now a glue stick. Anyway, signing up.

renata22d ago

Building something adjacent in the AI video space and I have to say, the horse positioning is bold. We went with something boring like 'storyboards'.

Deepak N.22d ago

We had a tool internally in 2019 that did scene-to-video off text prompts. Different stack, same energy. Curious where the moat is here.

Yuna Park22d ago

Beautiful manifesto. How does a creator actually get a finished export onto TikTok in under 5 minutes is my only question.

Fiona H.22d ago

The tweet thread cuts off mid sentence and somehow that makes the horse feel even more trapped. Accidental art direction.

Svetlana K.22d ago

Retention curves on AI video tools have been brutal across the category. Would love to see week 4 numbers before I tweet 'interesting'.

Jamal B.22d ago

Hot take: the launch video is doing more storytelling than most actual short films I watched this year. Whoever cut it deserves a raise.

Harris M.22d ago

Quick roadmap thought: let users name their horse. Persistent identity across projects, suddenly you have a character system and not just a tool.