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MiniMax H3 open-weight video model tops Video Arena

MiniMax released open weights for its 33B H3 audio-video model, which became the #1 open model in Video Arena for both text-to-video and image-to-video, tied for #3 overall. Day 0 partners include fal, Runway, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, and LeonardoAi.

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Jul 31
Aug 1
- MiniMax H3: An open model breaking the boundaries between tasks and modalities
Aug 3
- The weights are open, and @fal's got them ready to build with Day 0 🙌 This is bigger than access...
Aug 4
- SITUATION DETECTED: MiniMax-H3 is now the #1 open model in Video Arena across both Text-to-Video...
Aug 5
- We just dropped SOTA open weights for our MiniMax‑H3 video model, and so much happened in 48 hours....
Aug 10
Aug 26
- MiniMax H3 is at @anyscalecompute’s #RaySummit today in SF. @VictorSuOrtiz will break down our 33B...
Aug 28
- @KeyTryer we will release the weights, model keeps improving
Aug 29
- MiniMax H3 native 720p→1440p on one RTX 4090: 112s / 223s / 334s with auto-scheduled sparse attention

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