MiniMax released H3 Max, an AI video generator that produces 5–15 second clips with synchronized audio, offering faster, more stable generation and stronger prompt adherence. The tool supports text, i…
Fal launched H3 Max Director on September 3, an API that turns short generated clips into a live, steerable WebRTC video-and-audio session, supporting 24 fps output and memory for up to 50 earlier pro…
Saudi Arabia's state-backed AI company Humain released its HUMAIN M3 model on September 2, 2026, built on open weights from Chinese AI firm MiniMax and fine-tuned on over 1 trillion Arabic tokens, ach…
Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI company Humain, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, launched its national Arabic AI model humain-m3 at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh on September 3, 2026, revealing it is bu…
MiniMax released H3 Max, a post-trained video model variant that generates 5–15 second clips with synchronized audio and directed camera motion, prioritizing prompt adherence and fast iteration at up …
MiniMax and fal.ai have jointly released MiniMax H3 Max, a video generation model post-trained by fal.ai on MiniMax H3 for high-speed generation, supporting 480P and 768P output. It currently supports…
Fal, the San Francisco-based generative media platform co-founded by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, released H3 Max on September 1, a post-trained video model based on MiniMax's open-weights H3 that…
Chinese AI lab Z.ai reported its H1 2026 earnings, showing its model-as-a-service business grew 2,736% year-over-year, driving overall growth. The company's active user base reached 7.4 million, up fr…
MiniMax president Yeyi Yun said at the Goldman Sachs Asia Leadership Conference in Hong Kong on September 1 that true artificial general intelligence should be measured by AI autonomously generating a…
Yeyi Yun, co-founder and president of Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax, said at the Goldman Sachs Asia Leadership Conference in Hong Kong on September 1 that artificial general intelligence will be a…
FastH3, MiniMax's video-and-audio generation model, now runs on Apple Silicon via MLX and on NVIDIA's DGX Spark desktop, with two Sparks able to generate one clip together. The release also debuts the…
Vercel is offering MiniMax's H3 and H3 Max video models through its AI Gateway at a 50% discount from August 30 through September 13, 2026, with no code changes required for existing applications. The…
OpenRouter, an AI model aggregator, lists popular Chinese models such as DeepSeek, Z.ai, and MiniMax as headquartered in Singapore on its provider directory, despite their Chinese origins. The directo…
Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba Group Holding, MiniMax, and ByteDance, dominate the AI video generation market, occupying eight of the top 10 positions on Artificial Analysis' text-to-video le…
A systematic comparison of Chinese LLM tool-calling compatibility as of August 2026 finds that while all five major families (DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax) expose OpenAI-style endpoints, signifi…
MiniMax released H3 Max, a focused workspace for creating short AI videos from text prompts or still images, featuring stronger prompt adherence and image-to-video capabilities. The tool supports 5-15…
Chinese AI models now consume over 60% of tokens on OpenRouter, surpassing U.S. models, which fell below 40%, according to data from the model-routing platform. By June 2026, Chinese models reached 18…
A developer built Vancine, a smaller OpenAI-compatible API focused on current Chinese frontier models from Qwen, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, and DeepSeek, as an alternative to OpenRouter's broad catalog. The …
Fal, an inference-infrastructure company, announced on August 27, 2026, that its new H3 Max model generates five seconds of AI video with audio in under three seconds, claiming roughly 35x the through…
MiniMax's revenue nearly quadrupled to $116.6 million in the first half of 2026, up 283.1% from $30.4 million a year earlier, but its adjusted net loss widened 111.2% to $293 million. The Shanghai-bas…