MiniMax renamed its agent product Mavis in May 2026 and rebuilt it around Agent Teams, where a Leader, Worker, and Verifier split tasks, but the company's own engineering post admits this only pays of…
MiniMax released H3, the model behind Hailuo 3.0, on July 31, generating up to 15 seconds of 2K video with native stereo audio in a single pass, with weights on Hugging Face and day-0 ComfyUI support …
ComfyUI, the node-based AI creation engine created by Yannik Marek, added native MiniMax H3 workflows on Aug. 2, turning the video model into editable graphs with local-runtime support, claiming it ca…
China's MiniMax released the weights for its H3 video model, making it the first open model to top an AI video ranking. The H3 model achieved the top spot in a video generation benchmark, according to…
MiniMax's Hailuo 2.3 video model remains its current API offering as of August 3, with pricing at $0.28 for a 768p six-second clip, $0.56 for a 768p ten-second clip, and $0.49 for a 1080p six-second c…
MiniMax has released two H3 base checkpoints on Hugging Face under a standard community license, but the full 2K workflow still requires hosted services. The 288 GB repository includes H3-Base-FL2VA a…
MiniMax released H3, a 2K video generation model with native stereo audio, on July 31, 2026, ranking #1 in video editing on Artificial Analysis benchmarks and priced at $0.13 per second. The API is li…
MiniMaxH3.app, an independent third-party studio built around the MiniMax H3 open-weight video model, has implemented distinct workflows for text-to-video, first/last frame, and multi-reference genera…
On July 31, 2026, Chinese AI company MiniMax launched MiniMax H3, the third-generation Hailuo video model, which generates native 2K (2560×1440) video at 24fps with synchronized audio, supporting up t…
Argil, the Paris AI-video startup founded by Laodis Menard and Brivael Le Pogam, has integrated MiniMax H3 into its AI-avatar social video workflow, making H3 a footage-generation option within its pr…
OpenAI has slashed developer pricing for its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%, cutting API costs to US$0.20 per million input tokens and US$1.20 per million output tokens, as announced by CEO Sam Altman on X…
MiniMax launched H3, its newest multimodal video generation model, with open weights and competitive pricing, aiming to challenge closed-source rivals like ByteDance's Seedance 2.5. According to bench…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing on June 23, supporting 30-second single-segment generation and up to 50 multimodal reference inputs, while MiniMax's H…
OpenAI has cut prices for GPT-5.6 by 20%-80%, with the cost of GPT-5.4-level intelligence dropping 13x in four months due to GPT-5.6's recursive self-optimization. The company published findings showi…
MiniMax released MiniMax H3, an open-weights model that ranks #1 for video editing with audio and #2 for text-to-video with audio on Artificial Analysis's video leaderboard, offering commercial-grade …
MiniMax teased H3 as a unified multimodal model for Hailuo AI, saying only 'It's coming.' on X. The model, previewed at WAIC 2026, aims to interpret a shared context from text, images, video and sound…
A developer built HOUJIAYAN API, an OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes requests across 16 Chinese LLMs including DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, MiniMax, and Doubao. The gateway handles authentication, billi…
ConardLi's garden-skills project ships production-ready Agent Skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, encoding taste and process discipline rather than raw capability. The skills incl…
A Hacker News post speculates that if U.S. labs slow down AGI development, a scenario could unfold by 2028 where Chinese AI labs such as Moonshot Kimi 6, Alibaba Qwen 5, Z.ai, and MiniMax claim AGI-le…
Chinese AI developers may start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning Post, a shift that could alter the econo…