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MiniMax released a five-minute song model with a catch in the licence News
MiniMax published the weights for Music 3, a model that generates complete five-minute songs with vocals in 32 kHz stereo, under a licence that permits commercial use but requires on-screen credit and written permission above $20 million in revenue.
The open video model tops out at fifteen seconds, not twenty-six News
MiniMax's H3 weights have drawn 2,900 stars in four days, but the company's own repository caps a single generation at fifteen seconds and says the hosted component it left out is critical to output quality.
MiniMax Shipped H3's Weights and Kept the Best Part Hosted News
MiniMax released the weights for its H3 video-and-audio generation model, and its own model card says the input-processing stage that is critical to output quality is not included in the release and the 2K output stage is not open-sourced at all.
llama.cpp Merges MiniMax M3's Sparse Attention, Because Running It Dense Gives Wrong Answers News
Support for MiniMax M3's block-sparse attention landed in llama.cpp today, and the contributor is explicit that it is not a speed optimisation: the model was trained sparse, so running it dense produces degraded output.
Suddenly, downloadable AI models look like an insurance policy News
With a top hosted model pulled overnight, a flood of powerful open models you can run yourself -- and run fast -- is being reframed from hobby to risk management.
MiniMax Music 3 Tool
Open-weight model that generates complete five-minute songs with vocals in 32 kHz stereo from lyrics plus a structured style description. Runs via SGLang-Omni, Diffusers, or ComfyUI. Commercial use allowed with on-screen attribution; written permission required above $20M revenue.