Happy Horse 1.1 is now in the Picsart AI Playground, bringing Alibaba’s cinematic video model to creators who want longer, sharper AI video from a single prompt or a starting frame. The 1.1 release sharpens motion, holds characters and scenes together more consistently, and lifts overall visual quality, and you can generate clips up to 15 seconds at 1080p with optional first-frame guidance.

Meet Happy Horse 1.1

Happy Horse 1.1 is the latest version of Alibaba’s AI video model, built by the Future Life Lab inside Alibaba’s Taotian Group and unveiled on June 23, 2026. It generates video from a text prompt or from a starting image, and the 1.1 update focuses on the parts of a clip viewers notice first: motion, consistency, and visual detail.

Inside the Picsart AI Playground, Happy Horse 1.1 runs alongside the rest of Picsart’s video models. You can generate a clip, compare it against another model, and keep iterating in one workspace instead of jumping between tools.

What is new in Happy Horse 1.1

Version 1.1 is a clear step up from Happy Horse 1.0 across the qualities that make AI video feel believable. The upgrades land where short clips usually fall apart: movement, continuity, and fine detail.

Stronger motion expressiveness

Happy Horse 1.1 produces smoother action and more kinetic tension in fast-moving scenes, with more physically grounded, frame-level detail in moments like high-speed motion and dramatic weather.

Higher generation consistency

Characters, scenes, and style hold together more reliably across a shot, so a face or a setting does not drift as the clip plays. This is what makes the model better at multi-shot storytelling and multi-character scenes rather than single isolated moments.

Enhanced visual quality

The 1.1 update improves facial texture and overall image quality, giving close-up performance and detailed scenes a sharper, more finished look. Combined with the motion and consistency gains, clips read as more cinematic straight out of the generator.

What you can do with Happy Horse 1.1 in Picsart

Inside the Picsart AI Playground, Happy Horse 1.1 gives creators a focused set of controls for short cinematic clips. Here is what you get with the integration:

Up to 15-second video

Happy Horse 1.1 generates clips up to 15 seconds long in a single pass, which is enough room for a full beat: a product reveal, a short scene, or a social-ready story moment. That length suits short-form ads and reels where pacing matters more than runtime.

1080p output

Clips render in 1080p, so the output is ready for social feeds, paid placements, and promo content without an upscaling step. The higher resolution also shows off the visual-quality gains in 1.1, especially in close-ups.

Optional first-frame guidance

First-frame guidance lets you upload a starting image and have Happy Horse 1.1 animate from that exact frame, so the clip opens on a composition you already control. It is the fastest way to turn a product photo, a character design, or a key art frame into motion, and it gives image-to-video work a predictable starting point.

Where to use Happy Horse 1.1

Happy Horse 1.1 is available directly in the Picsart AI Playground. Open the video model selector, choose Happy Horse 1.1, and start from a text prompt or upload a first frame to guide the clip. The AI Playground keeps this model next to Picsart’s other video models, so comparing options never means leaving the workspace.

How to use Happy Horse 1.1

  1. Open the Picsart AI Playground.
  2. Choose Happy Horse 1.1 from the video model list.
  3. Enter your prompt, or upload a first frame to guide the opening shot.
  4. Set the clip length up to 15 seconds.
  5. Generate in 1080p, then refine the prompt or starting frame and run it again.

This workflow is built for fast iteration. If the motion or framing is not quite right, adjust the prompt or swap the first frame and generate again without starting from scratch.

Frequently asked questions

Happy Horse 1.1 is the latest version of Alibaba’s AI video model. It generates video from text or from a starting image, and version 1.1 improves motion expressiveness, generation consistency, and visual quality over Happy Horse 1.0.

Start creating with Happy Horse 1.1

Happy Horse 1.1 makes it faster to turn a prompt or a single image into a sharp, cinematic clip with motion that holds up. Open the Picsart AI Playground, choose Happy Horse 1.1, and generate your first 1080p video in a few seconds.