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MiniMax AI releases open weights for H3 video model, igniting community innovation

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MiniMax AI has released the open weights for its MiniMax-H3 video model, sparking rapid innovation within the open-source community. Within 48 hours of the release, users demonstrated the model's capabilities on unconventional hardware, including low-cost gaming GPUs and MacBooks, and developed new tools to support it. This rapid adoption and development highlight the community's engagement with the open-sourced weights. AI

IMPACT Accelerates open-source development and hardware experimentation for video generation models.

RANK_REASON Frontier lab model release with open weights. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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MiniMax AI releases open weights for H3 video model, igniting community innovation

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Frontier lab model release with open weights. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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High
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48 days old
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COVERAGE [1]

  1. X — MiniMax AI TIER_1 English(EN) · MiniMax_AI ·

    RT @RyanLeeMiniMax: None of this was us. Day 1 (and the first 48 hours) belonged to the open-source community:

    RT @RyanLeeMiniMax: None of this was us. Day 1 (and the first 48 hours) belonged to the open-source community: Generate with it @ComfyUI —…

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