Newshot Alibaba's Xiami App Returns in AI Form Five Years After Shutdown: "Happy Series" HappyShrimp Officially Launches, Membership from 30 Yuan per Month
IT Home, November 13 news: Alibaba's AI music creation platform HappyShrimp has officially launched on iOS and Android, arriving on the Apple App Store and major Android app stores. The App Store version has currently been updated to 0.2.14.
App description: HappyShrimp - an AI music creation product under Alibaba's ATH team. You're responsible for expressing the music in your heart, the style you want, the emotions, backstory, or era information you want to convey; HappyShrimp is responsible for understanding it, arranging it, and fully producing it. The product supports generating vocal songs and instrumental music, suitable for users with zero music background, music creators, and music lovers. You can start from a single idea and let AI intelligently generate lyrics and complete the song; you can also input lyrics you've written yourself and let AI compose, arrange, and perform vocals based on them. [World Knowledge] HappyShrimp possesses rich world knowledge of music, understanding the creative aesthetics behind different eras, genres, regions, and cultural contexts, so the model truly understands what you're saying. [Control] HappyShrimp's understanding of control is: on the premise that musicality holds, convey the user's creative demands to the work as completely and accurately as possible. [Music Arrangement] Understanding the user's intent is the starting point of creation; organizing that intent into a song that holds together is true musical ability. HappyShrimp can, like a music producer, coordinate lyrics, composition, arrangement, and vocals along the song's timeline. At HappyShrimp, let imagination become music.
App Description
HappyShrimp - an AI music creation product under Alibaba's ATH team.
You're responsible for expressing the music in your heart, the style you want, the emotions, backstory, or era information you want to convey; HappyShrimp is responsible for understanding it, arranging it, and fully producing it.
The product supports generating vocal songs and instrumental music, suitable for users with zero music background, music creators, and music lovers. You can start from a single idea and let AI intelligently generate lyrics and complete the song; you can also input lyrics you've written yourself and let AI compose, arrange, and perform vocals based on them.
HappyShrimp possesses rich world knowledge of music, understanding the creative aesthetics behind different eras, genres, regions, and cultural contexts, so the model truly understands what you're saying.
HappyShrimp's understanding of control is: on the premise that musicality holds, convey the user's creative demands to the work as completely and accurately as possible.
Understanding the user's intent is the starting point of creation; organizing that intent into a song that holds together is true musical ability. HappyShrimp can, like a music producer, coordinate lyrics, composition, arrangement, and vocals along the song's timeline.
At HappyShrimp, let imagination become music.
The platform targets general users: users simply describe in natural language the emotions, stories, or music styles they want to express, and AI completes the entire process of lyrics, composition, arrangement, and vocal performance.
HappyShrimp was developed by Alibaba's ATH (TokenHub) business group. It first launched on August 17, 2026 as a PC web Beta, and is the third member of Alibaba's "Happy Series" AI models, following the video generation model HappyHorse and the 3D interactive video model HappyOyster for game developers.
At the feature level, HappyShrimp focuses on end-to-end integrated full-song generation, rather than splitting lyric writing, composition, and arrangement into separate steps and then stitching them together. The platform offers two modes: "Smart Lyrics" and "Instrumental." The former generates complete songs with vocals, while the latter outputs instrumental BGM without vocals, suited for scenarios such as short videos, podcasts, and documentary scoring. Users can also provide their own lyrics and have AI complete composition, arrangement, and vocals.
One notable feature is "Music Recipe" and "Make the Same." Users can save the parameters used in a generation and reuse the same configuration to quickly produce multiple versions, or reference the style and instrumentation direction of uploaded audio to generate new works, without reproducing the original singer's timbre.
On pricing, the domestic standard membership is about 30 yuan per month, allowing generation of 150 songs, roughly 0.2 yuan per song; overseas membership starts at $14.90 per month, with credit packs starting at $9.90.
In-App Purchase Products Listed on the App Store
- 1000 credits ¥19.00
- Pro Membership ¥1,149.00
- Pro Membership ¥120.00
- Standard Membership ¥288.00
- 20000 credits ¥299.00
- 10000 credits ¥159.00
- 5000 credits ¥89.00
The launch of HappyShrimp brings the name "Xiami" back into Alibaba's music landscape after more than five years. In February 2021, Xiami Music officially ceased service, and its farewell letter acknowledged difficulties in acquiring music copyright content.
Unlike the old Xiami, HappyShrimp announced a strategic partnership with Taihe Music Group on its first day of launch in August 2026, collaborating on building the music industry ecosystem and co-creating AI musicians, bringing copyright holders into the ecosystem from the very beginning.
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