MiniMax H3 Open Weights Launch Spurs Community Testing

MiniMax has introduced H3, its latest multimodal AI model capable of understanding text, images, video, and audio within a unified context to generate high-quality videos with native stereo sound. The model supports up to 15-second videos in 2K resolution, offers advanced editing capabilities such as motion transfer, image-to-video, and video-to-video generation, and is designed for commercial applications including advertising, e-commerce, product design, gaming, and UI/UX. MiniMax also plans to release H3 as an open-weight model, giving developers greater flexibility to customize and deploy it. The company claims H3 delivers industry-leading price-performance, producing premium-quality videos at a significantly lower cost than competing models. H3 is built on a unified multimodal [...] Together, these developments highlight how AI is evolving beyond static models toward systems that can create, learn continuously, and interact intelligently with the physical world. ## MiniMax H3 Unv

Closed-source models have long dominated video generation, with slower iteration and a less open ecosystem than fields like large language models. To support the open-source community, accelerate compatibility with a broader range of AI hardware, and make it easier for users to build their own customized versions, we plan to open up the model weights in the coming days, subject to applicable laws and regulations. Hardware compatibility has been a key consideration since the earliest stages of H3's design. ### Multimodal context understanding [...] AIH3MultimodalVideo Generation Today, we're launching MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. H3 understands unified context across text, images, video, and audio, generating video with native stereo sound, up to 15 seconds at 2K resolution. Early testing shows H3 is ready for commercial content creation across a wide range of use cases, excelling at instruction following, accurate text and brand rendering, and V2V motio

### Prompting Guidance ## License MiniMax H3 is released under the MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement. Q&A about the License ## Contact Us Contact us at model@minimax.io. ## Try MiniMax H3 H3-2K: H3-Context-IR: H3-Regenerate-2K: MiniMax Hub: Hailuo AI: Open-source repositories: Hugging Face; ModelScope Intelligence with Everyone. [...] Each checkpoint is distributed as a self-contained Hugging Face-style repository with the following components: ``` / ├── model_index.json ├── processor/ ├── tokenizer/ ├── text_encoder/ ├── transformer/ ├── visual_vae/ └── audio_vae/ ``` Download the model. The repository hosts the original checkpoint (`FL2VA/`, `Ref2VA/`) and the diffusers format side by side, so scope the download to what your framework needs: ``` # Original checkpoint, both task families (SGLang, vLLM): hf download MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 --include "FL2VA/" "Ref2VA/" --local-dir MiniMax-H3 # Or a single task family: hf download MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 --include "FL

# MiniMax H3: The New Open-Source Video Champ? ## Codebreakers 3610 subscribers 133 likes ### Description 5312 views Posted: 3 Aug 2026 MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3.0) dropped overnight — an open-weights omni-modal model that generates video WITH native stereo audio in a single pass. Ranked #1 in video editing and top-3 in text-to-video. But they didn't open-source all of it. In this video: which of the six weight variants to actually download (and the trap that wastes 45GB), the two-checkpoint catch, real speed and VRAM numbers from my RTX 5090, the prompt structure that replaces the closed Context-IR module, and my honest verdict vs LTX 2.3. 📥 Workflows, exact settings & the prompt template: Codebreakers site: 🔔 Subscribe — to keep up to date with latest drops! [...] 🔔 Subscribe — to keep up to date with latest drops! 🔗 Links: - Patreon: - Codebreakers site: - Model weights (ComfyUI repackaged): - Model weights (original): - ComfyUI workflow docs: - ComfyUI day-0 blog: Bui

Everything from this video is FREE — the enhanced H3 workflows, my exact prompts and settings, and the complete test generation set including the failures: Official model + workflow links: MiniMax H3 weights: ComfyUI-repackaged H3 files: Official ComfyUI workflow templates: LTX-Video: Some segments in this video (including Astra's) were generated with MiniMax H3 — disclosed on screen where they appear. If you want to support the channel, Patreon is here (optional — nothing in this video is paywalled): Next up: H3 ranks #1 in the world for AI video editing — I'm putting that to the test. Subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss it. [...] is why I'll be showing you some of mine in full today. The second is a 2K pass. Their servers regenerate the 768p output at 2K and that one you generally can't have locally. So, we top out at native 768p and then upscale with our own tools, which is what every result in this video is. That's the truth of it. Astra, give people the numbers. T

## Related Trending Stories on X MiniMax Launches H3 AI Video Model with Audio and 2K Clips News · 36K posts MiniMax H3 Emerges as Top Open-Weight AI Video Model Other · 290 posts user avatar MiniMax (official) @MiniMax\_AI Aug 3 MiniMax-H3 Is Now Publicly Available huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mini… 00:00 user avatar Justine Moore @venturetwins Aug 3 One-shot MiniMax H3 generation 🤯 Prompt was "Jim and Dwight from The Office discuss autonomous coding agents" 00:00 user avatar Victor M @victormustar Aug 3 Having so much fun with MinMax-H3. Cannot believe we now have this video quality 100% locally 🚀 00:00 00:41 user avatar MiniMax (official) @MiniMax\_AI Aug 3 MiniMax-H3 Is Now Publicly Available huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mini… user avatar MiniMax (official) [...] user avatar MiniMax (official) @MiniMax\_AI Aug 3 This is how much you can do with a single RTX 5090 NOW with MiniMax H3. WE HAVE CROSSED A LINE.✊ user avatar Ryan Lightbourn @ryanlightb