Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.1 lands at #2 on the Artificial Analysis Text to Video and Image to Video leaderboards, behind only ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0!
HappyHorse 1.1 is the latest version of Alibaba's video generation model, a refinement of 1.0 on the same unified transformer architecture. Alibaba positions the upgrade around stronger audio-visual sync, including native audio with better lip-synced dialogue in seven languages, alongside gains in motion, character, and scene consistency. It supports up to nine reference images and generates at 720p and 1080p.
Our results line up with that focus: HappyHorse 1.1's largest gains over 1.0 come in our Image to Video with Audio modality, where it now ranks #2, up from #5.
HappyHorse 1.1 is priced at $9.90 per minute of generated video at 1080p, and is available now on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian), Qwen Cloud, and fal.
Congratulations to @HappyHorseATH and @alibaba_cloud the release!
See below for comparisons between HappyHorse 1.1 and other leading models in the Artificial Analysis Video Arena 🧵