Happy Horse 1.0

Happy Horse 1.0 is Alibaba's video generation model from the Taotian Future Life Lab, released April 2026. It generates video and synchronized audio together in a single pass and held the #1 Elo on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena at launch.

Seven languages with native lip-sync: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, German, and French.

Each generation is 3 to 15 seconds at 1080p, across five aspect ratios including 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1.

Happy Horse generates video and audio jointly in one pass with native multilingual lip-sync across 7 languages. Seedance 2.0 emphasizes multimodal inputs and music beat sync. Veo focuses on cinematic photorealism.

Yes. The video-edit endpoint accepts natural language instructions and up to 5 reference images to modify existing footage without a full re-render.

Open Copilot, describe your scene (and optionally attach a still or audio reference), and select Happy Horse 1.0. Because it generates synchronized audio in the same pass, you don't need a separate audio model, the model returns a clip with native lip-sync and sound.