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The State of the Race: HappyHorse Debuts, Gemini Omni Drops, and Seedance Hits $138M/Month

The video generation leaderboard reshuffled twice in six weeks. HappyHorse 1.0 went viral in blind tests before Alibaba claimed it. Google launched Gemini Omni Flash at I/O 2026 — a unified multimodal model, architecturally distinct from Veo 3. Seedance 2.0 crossed $138M/month in revenue. xAI's Grok Imagine 1.5 briefly hit #1 on image-to-video. Here's what each move means and where things stand.