The music-generation model turns a single text prompt into a fully produced song
Chinese technology giant Alibaba has released a beta version of its text-to-song AI music-generation model, HappyShrimp 1.0.
The launch signals the arrival of Alibaba as a new competitor to leading AI music platforms Suno and Udio.
As Suno and Udio continue to face copyright litigation from major music companies, Hangzhou-headquartered Alibaba has teamed with China’s Taihe Music Group, the label group behind Taihe Rye Music and Ocean Butterflies, on artist co-creation and content development.
The launch follows the August 3 release of Alibaba’s biggest AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, which the company positioned as second only to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 among frontier systems.
HappyShrimp 1.0 can create complete musical compositions – including melodies, arrangements, lyrics and vocals – from a single written prompt specifying an emotion, narrative or genre.
Users can also provide lyrics for the model to set to music, or request an instrumental.
The model covers Chinese-style music, pop, R&B/soul, hip-hop, rock, funk, electronic, classical, and jazz.
Prompts can specify instrumentation, vocal style, and the ebb and flow of a track’s energy.
It was built by Alibaba Token Hub, the AI business group the company created in March 2026.
