Aug 30
The video generation AI MiniMax H3, released as an open-weight model on August 3, has spawned rapid community updates. The AI cloud service fal developed MiniMax H3 Max, which generates 15-second videos in about 13 seconds while maintaining quality. It offers 5-second videos free up to five times daily, with Japanese prompt support, and costs $0.08 per second at 768p, a 50% off sale until September 1.
Aug 15
Chinese AI developer MiniMax released the music generation AI MiniMax-Music3 on August 14, 2026. The model generates songs with vocals from text prompts, supports Japanese vocals, and can produce tracks up to five minutes long. It is free to use and can run locally, with a demo app available on Hugging Face.
Aug 9
Chinese AI firm MiniMax released MiniMax H3, an open video generation model that matches ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 in cloud performance. Its Omni Reference feature accepts up to nine images, three videos, and three audio tracks, and it runs on a local PC with an RTX 4090. ASCII.jp tested it with live-action and anime-style prompts.
Aug 9
Chinese AI firm MiniMax announced MiniMax H3, a video generation model that creates up to 15 seconds of audio-synced video from text, images, or voice. It supports 768p or 2K resolution and accepts multiple media inputs at once. In a blind test by Artificial Analysis, H3 ranked second for text-to-video, behind Gemini Omni Flash and ahead of Seedance 2.0. The model is available via API now, with open weights planned soon.