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Apr 18, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba’s HappyOyster World Model Takes a Third Path Between Google and Fei‑Fei’s Approaches

HappyOyster, Alibaba’s real‑time interactive world‑model product, combines a Wander mode for open‑ended scene generation and a Direct mode for AI‑driven video direction, using a streaming multimodal architecture that distinguishes it from one‑shot text‑to‑video systems like Sora and offers a distinct path from Google’s Genie and Fei‑Fei’s World Labs.