Meet Happy Oyster: Alibaba launches new AI video model that turns text prompts into playable 3D worlds

Alibaba has launched Happy Oyster, a new artificial intelligence “world model” capable of generating 3D environments and interactive videos that simulate real-world physics. The new AI model announcement comes shortly after OpenAI decided to shut down its Sora video generation service. Meanwhile, Alibaba’s new model also faces competition from Tencent, whose Humayun HY-World 2.0 model is also capable of reconstructing full 3D worlds from video clips.

Notably, Happy Oyster had earlier gone viral after the model, under the pseudonym HappyHorse-1.0, had topped the benchmark platform Artificial Analysis’ text-to-video and image-to-video rankings.