New Delhi, April 11 -- Alibaba has emerged at the top of global AI video benchmarks with its model, HappyHorse-1.0. The rise comes just as OpenAI's Sora project, once seen as a frontrunner in the space, steps away from the spotlight.

HappyHorse-1.0 did not arrive with the usual fanfare associated with large AI releases. Instead, it appeared anonymously on benchmarking platforms, quickly climbing to the top in blind evaluations for both text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

The model reportedly achieved an ELO score of 1,332 on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena, outperforming competing systems, including ByteDance's Seedance 2.0.

What stands out is not just the ranking, but the way it happened. In a market often driven by hype ...