Alibaba just revealed it’s behind a viral AI video model dominating leaderboards

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A mysterious AI video model that has ascended global leaderboards has been confirmed as a project from Chinese tech giant Alibaba

, in a development that could boost the company’s artificial intelligence ambitions.

HappyHorse-1.0, which appeared on the benchmarking platform Artificial Analysis around April 7, without identifying its affiliations, climbed to the top of blind-test rankings for both text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

The developers revealed in a newly created X account Friday that HappyHorse was part of Alibaba’s ATH AI Innovation Unit and that the project was still under development. Alibaba confirmed to CNBC that the post was genuine.

Alibaba just revealed it’s behind a viral AI video model dominating leaderboards

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