[ By Zhang Liyan | Tang Ruohan ]

【#Tech24H】On April 16, Alibaba released its world model HappyOyster, further expanding its AI product matrix with a direct focus on content production fields such as gaming and filmmaking. The model is built on a native multimodal architecture, supporting multimodal understanding and joint audio-video generation. Currently, HappyOyster enables two core capabilities: Wander and Direct, allowing users to build interactive, performative, and explorable AI-driven digital worlds in real time. The digital worlds generated by users can not only be fully saved but also opened up for secondary creation by other users. Alibaba stated that the product is currently in a limited early experience phase.