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MiniMax H3 video AI launch, financials, and H3 Max release

Overview

In late July 2026, MiniMax Group announced the H3 multimodal video‑generation model. The system can produce 2K‑resolution clips up to 15 seconds long with native stereo audio, accepting text, images, video and audio in a single prompt. MiniMax offered API access at roughly $0.13 per second for 2K output and said the cost was less than a third of competing services. The company also said it would make the model weights publicly available under an open‑source licence in early August, allowing users with suitable hardware to run H3 locally. The launch came amid a copyright lawsuit against the platform underlying H3. A few days later, MiniMax provided additional technical details. H3 supports 768p or 2K resolution, can handle prompts up to 7,000 characters, and can incorporate up to nine images, three video clips and three audio files. It can generate videos from scratch, animate images, define start and end frames, or transfer motion between sequences. Independent testing placed H3 second in a text‑to‑audio‑video benchmark, behind Gemini Omni Flash. MiniMax positioned the model for advertising, e‑commerce, branding, product design, video games, film titles and animated posters, and reiterated plans to release it as a free open‑source offering. By mid-August 2026, technical efforts focused on hardware optimization. An inference engine was developed to optimize H3 performance on Mac computers using Apple Silicon, specifically targeting M3 Max and M5 Max chips. These optimizations utilize Metal 4 and TensorOps to increase computational efficiency and reduce inference time. The engine also includes native BF16 support for attention mechanisms and user controls like token reduction to balance video detail with generation speed. In late August 2026, MiniMax launched MiniMax Design, a professional production workflow that integrates H3 with specialized image, music, and voice models through executable nodes.

Entities

MiniMax · H3 · MiniMax H3 · H3 Max · Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Timeline

12 days ago

[TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
fal launches H3 Max video generation model
fal has launched H3 Max, a video generation model based on MiniMax H3 that offers faster-than-real-time speeds, generating five-second videos in roughly three seconds with high visual quality.
16 days ago

[BUSINESS] 25 sources
MiniMax reports 283% revenue surge driven by enterprise AI
MiniMax reported a 283.1% surge in H1 2026 revenue to $116.6 million, driven by a 703.1% jump in enterprise AI services, which now comprise over 63% of its total income.
22 days ago

[TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
MiniMax launches Design platform for H3 video production
MiniMax has launched MiniMax Design to streamline H3 video production, while the Japanese platform PopPixs begins implementing the H3 model for synchronized video and audio generation.
about 1 month ago

[TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
MiniMax H3 inference engine optimized for Apple Silicon
A new MiniMax H3 inference engine has been developed to optimize AI performance on Apple Silicon, utilizing Metal 4 and TensorOps to enhance video and audio generation on M3 and M5 Max chips.
about 1 month ago

[TECHNOLOGY] 6 sources
MiniMax launches H3 multimodal video‑generation AI model
MiniMax introduced H3, a multimodal AI that creates 4‑15 second 2K videos with stereo audio from text, images, video and audio inputs, and will soon be released as a free open model.
about 1 month ago

[TECHNOLOGY] 22 sources
MiniMax launches H3 multimodal 2K video model
MiniMax unveiled H3, a 2K multimodal video model on July 31 2026, pricing under one‑third of rivals, with open‑source weights slated for early August and backed by Alibaba and Tencent.

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