Alibaba

HappyHorse 1.0

HappyHorse 1.0 is Alibaba's flagship multimodal AI video model — a unified 15B-parameter Transformer that generates 1080p video with native synchronized audio from a single text or image prompt. It topped public benchmarks at launch with an Elo score of 1381, leading the second-place model by 107 points.

HappyHorse 1.0 supports Text-to-Video (T2V), Image-to-Video (I2V) and Subject-to-Video (S2V), letting you generate from a prompt, animate a still image, or insert a reference subject into a generated video while preserving identity. Output is up to 15 seconds of 1080p with multiple shots and synchronized audio — including lip-synced dialogue, ambient soundscapes and emotionally expressive vocal performances. Video editing capabilities include Video-to-Video (V2V) for restyling existing footage while preserving structure and motion, and Subject-and-Video-to-Video (SV2V) for replacing or inserting subjects from a reference image while keeping the original motion, composition and unaffected regions intact. Surfaced in Astorie through the Geneasy provider with text-to-video and first-frame image-to-video modes.

Illustrative sample of a HappyHorse 1.0 still showing a multi-shot 1080p scene with an expressive speaking character implying native synchronized audio on the Astorie canvas
Illustrative sample — representative output, not a verbatim model render

Capabilities

Text-to-Video
Image-to-Video
Video-to-Video
Reference Images
End Frame
Storyboard
Audio-Driven

Supported Aspect Ratios

16:99:161:14:33:4

Best For

  • Lip-synced dialogue and emotionally expressive vocal performance in generated video
  • Multi-shot 1080p video from a single text or image prompt
  • Multilingual content where native lip-sync matters
  • Story- and ad-style content needing voice + ambient sound out of the box
  • First-frame I2V workflows that animate a hero still into a finished clip

Strengths

  • Unified 15B-parameter Transformer with joint audio-video generation
  • 1080p output up to 15 seconds with multi-shot composition
  • Multilingual lip-sync, ambient soundscapes and expressive vocal performance
  • Topped public leaderboards on launch (Elo 1381, +107 over runner-up)

Limitations

  • Prompts are capped at 5,000 non-Chinese characters or 2,500 CJK characters
  • Reference images for I2V must be 10 MB or smaller
  • On Astorie today, only T2V and first-frame I2V are exposed; S2V/V2V/SV2V live on the upstream model
  • Single quality tier — no Standard/Pro split inside the model

Tips & Best Practices

Write the spoken dialogue verbatim in the prompt — HappyHorse will generate matching lip-synced audio in the same pass.
Describe the desired vocal emotion (calm, excited, whispered) so the model can shape the performance accordingly.
For first-frame I2V, upload a clean hero still under 10 MB; the model will animate it into a multi-shot clip.

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