MiniMax releases H3, SOTA open-weights video model

H3 is now the #1 open model in Video Arena for both text- and image-to-video, tied #3 overall, and SOTA on Artificial Analysis. Within 48 hours the community added native ComfyUI support, a distillation LoRA cutting sampling from 20 to 4–8 steps, and runs on $280 GPUs, an RTX 5090, and offline MacBooks.