Alibaba’s HappyHorse tops Seedance, offering glimpse into China’s race for AI talent
SCMP Tech / 4/10/2026
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Key Points
- Alibaba’s HappyHorse won Seedance, giving wider visibility to its creator, Zhang Di, and highlighting his return to public attention after a five-year stint away from Alibaba.
- The win is framed as a signal of how fiercely China is competing to attract, retain, and spotlight top AI talent.
- The article uses HappyHorse’s “debut on the global stage” to illustrate that individual creators and their teams can become key drivers of broader national AI momentum.
- By linking a contest outcome to talent concentration, the piece suggests that talent races may be shaping the next wave of AI progress as much as model performance itself.
A new video generation model quietly unveiled by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has overtaken Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s most advanced model, as the world’s top-ranked artificial intelligence video tool based on an evaluation by a benchmark site, offering a glimpse into the AI talent race as the market heats up.
The HappyHorse 1.0 model, which was still under internal beta testing, was developed by the Innovation Business Unit under the e-commerce giant’s newly formed Alibaba Token Hub...
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