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MiniMax AI releases open-weight music model and tops video editing benchmark

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MiniMax AI has released Minimax Music 3, an open-weight music generation model that utilizes an 8B LLM and a 2.7B Diffusion Transformer. This model is capable of producing full songs from text prompts and lyrics, and is designed to run on consumer GPUs via libraries like diffusers and Comfy. Separately, MiniMax AI also announced that its H3 model, MiniMax-H3, has achieved the top rank on the Video Edit Arena, scoring 1390 points and surpassing competitors like Dreamina Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni Flash. AI

IMPACT Sets new SOTA for open-weight music generation and video editing benchmarks, potentially accelerating adoption of these capabilities.

RANK_REASON The cluster reports on the release of a new open-weight model (Minimax Music 3) and a top-ranking benchmark achievement (MiniMax-H3) by a frontier AI lab (MiniMax AI). [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]

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MiniMax AI releases open-weight music model and tops video editing benchmark

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

    Thanks for Huggingface team @multimodalart , day 0 support open weight music model!

    Thanks for Huggingface team @multimodalart , day 0 support open weight music model!

  2. X — MiniMax AI TIER_1 Norsk(NO) · MiniMax_AI ·

    #1. Not just among open models. SOTA, full stop. 🥇

    #1. Not just among open models. SOTA, full stop. 🥇 H3 just took the crown on Video Edit Arena. Drop in your footage, prompt the impossible, and let H3 reimagine every frame. Show us your wildest edit. 🔥

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