Alibaba confirms it has launched its own video generation model, HappyHorse-1.0, developed by the AI innovation division of Taotian Group. HappyHorse-1.0 performed exceptionally well in third-party evaluations. It has not yet been open-sourced and is consistent with Alibaba’s recent closed-source strategy. The release of the model is intended to respond to competitors’ market performance and strengthen its competitiveness in the MaaS market.

Short video + meme trading platform Giggles completed a $1.2 million Pre-Seed funding round in 2025, with investors including 1kx Capital, etc. The app developed by founder Justin Jin combines social features with prediction markets. It is currently in an invite-only testing phase, where users trade on trending content.

Gate News message, April 3, Alibaba released a newly upgraded Wan2.7-Video video generation model. The model covers four major functional modules: text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, and video editing, expanding AI capabilities from generating from a single asset to end-to-end creation.

Gate News message, April 2, Zhipu AI released the multimodal coding foundation model GLM-5V-Turbo, designed specifically for visual programming scenarios. The model natively supports multimodal input understanding such as images, video, design drafts, and document layouts, and can also call multimodal tools such as framing, screenshots, and reading webpages, with the context window expanded to 200k.

Gate News message, March 31, Resolv co-founder Ivan released a video saying the investigation into the incident is still ongoing, and that there is currently no evidence implicating insiders. Ivan also noted that a complete recovery plan has not yet been determined.

Musk said on the X platform that the key to AI development lies in video understanding and generation technologies, and that photons are the highest-bandwidth form of communication. He noted that Grok Imagine has already achieved positive gross margins, and also mentioned the background behind OpenAI shutting down the video platform Sora.

Alibaba Qwen3.5-Omni, a fully multimodal large model, was released on March 30. It includes Instruct versions in three different sizes, supports long context, and supports multiple audio and video inputs. The model is pretrained on massive amounts of data, significantly improving multilingual capabilities, and supports 113 speech recognition languages and 36 speech generation modes.

Gate News message, March 30, iQIYI (IQ.O) announced that the company has officially initiated the public commercial testing of Nadou Pro, its self-developed AI smart assistant, in the recent period. Nadou Pro is the first AI smart assistant in China designed specifically for professional long-form video production. By integrating leading foundation models and iQIYI’s deep experience in producing high-quality content, it can effectively simplify the entire production process from creative ideation to final video generation.

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BlockBeats news, on March 27, Musk responded to the community on the X platform, stating that a significant update for Grok Imagine will be released next week. Combining Musk's earlier confirmation of an "epic" upgrade, the community analyzes that the "significant update" may involve longer video lengths, optimized multimodal inputs, or a new API, marking xAI's accelerated efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Google in the AI video competition.