Hugging Face's mid-year report on open models shows that among the 25 most-downloaded and 25 most-liked models on its platform, only one repository appears on both lists, highlighting a disconnect bet…
MiniMax founder Junjie Yan announced that Morgan Suo, a senior go-to-market and key-account manager, will present its H3 video model at ModCon in San Francisco on August 18, targeting AI infrastructur…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax's H3, released on the same day two weeks ago, have propelled China to dominate the AI video race, with nine of the top 10 text-to-video systems on Artificial Analy…
Hugging Face's biannual report on open models for summer 2026 finds that Chinese labs released the largest open models in almost every month of 2026, with monthly ceilings ranging from 754B to 2.78 tr…
MiniMax released Music 3, an open-weight text-to-music AI model with downloadable weights on Hugging Face, built on a Qwen3-8B language model and a diffusion-based audio pipeline, requiring a minimum …
MiniMax Music 3, an open music generation model from MiniMax, generates full structured songs up to five minutes long from text prompts and optional lyrics, but hands-on testing found solid English vo…
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based AI company founded by Yan Junjie, released Music 3 on August 13, 2026, an open-weights model that generates complete songs of up to five minutes from lyrics and a productio…
MiniMax-H3, a 33-billion-parameter open-weight video generation model from Chinese AI firm MiniMax, ranks first in the Video Edit Arena on arena.ai with 1390 points, 32 points ahead of Dreamina Seedan…
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday formally released its official V4 Pro model, aiming to regain ground against fast-moving domestic rivals as it expands hiring, computing ca…
Magnific, the creative AI platform founded by Javier "Javi" Lopez and Emilio Nicolas, will showcase MiniMax H3 at its San Francisco office on Aug. 13, 2026, in an event titled "Magnific Spotlight: Min…
MiniMax founder Yan Junjie is promoting a developer livestream on fal about building with the H3 video model, featuring speakers Lovis Odin, Ethan Wei, and Victor Su-Ortiz, though no date or registrat…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported second-quarter revenue of RMB204.8 billion ($30.4 billion), up 11% year over year, while capital expenditure surged 176% to RMB52.8 billion, according to MarketWatch. Th…
MiniMax's H3 model demonstrates significant performance gains in multimodal understanding by processing visual and textual inputs in a shared latent space, reducing latency and error cascades compared…
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has begun its pre-IPO tutoring process, hiring Citic Securities to guide preparations for a mainland China listing, with a mandatory tutoring period of at least three mon…
IBM and Together AI signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to offer open-source AI inference services on IBM Cloud, powered by Nvidia HGX B300 systems with Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. Together…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B Mixture-of-Experts open model with 3B active parameters and up to 1M token context, designed for always-on agents. Kilo, an AI platform, tested the model …
IBM and Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud powered by Nvidia's HGX B300 systems with Blackwell processors and Spectrum-X Ethernet netw…
A new experiment by an unnamed researcher found that AI models suffer from 'idea-mode collapse,' returning only three to five unique ideas out of ten requested, with no model coming close to filling t…
Ungate, a new Cursor extension by developer orchidfiles, lets users run Claude, ChatGPT, and MiniMax subscriptions in Cursor without paying API token costs. The extension, installable via `cursor --in…
Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of Redis, released h3.c, a native C inference engine for MiniMax's open-source H3 video model, rendering video with synchronized stereo audio on Apple Silicon in about 75…