HappyHorse 1.0 from Alibaba ATH (April 2026) ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis without-audio leaderboard — Chinese-vendor video-AI leadership across capability dimensions continues
HappyHorse 1.0 from Alibaba ATH (April 2026) ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis without-audio video-AI leaderboard. ByteDance Seedance 2.0 ranks #1 on AA with-audio. The Chinese-vendor leadership across multiple video-AI capability dimensions continues structurally through H2 2026.
The substantive piece is the Chinese-vendor multi-leaderboard leadership pattern. Pre-2026 video-AI leaderboard leadership rotated between Western and Chinese vendors. H1 2026 establishes Chinese-vendor leadership across both with-audio (Seedance 2.0) and without-audio (HappyHorse 1.0) leaderboard categories. The cross-category Chinese-vendor leadership represents substantively different competitive landscape than H2 2025 baseline.
The competitive read for H2 2026 to 2027 video-AI procurement is that Chinese-vendor leadership requires explicit jurisdictional-evaluation alongside capability + cost dimensions. Anthropic's Alibaba accusation + Alibaba HappyHorse leadership together create procurement-evaluation tension that Western vendors don't carry in the same way.
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