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…
Alibaba Group Holding's minority stake in ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is now worth more than 140 billion yuan (US$464 billion) after CXMT's listing on Monday, nearly 20 times Alibaba's reporte…
AI teams risk production incidents by treating model access without proper environment separation. A developer switching a single configuration value can turn an experiment into an outage. The solutio…
Chinese AI models from labs including DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, GLM, and MiniMax compete with US frontier systems on specific tasks like coding and math, often at lower prices, but a US government evaluat…
Anthropic has alleged that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, evading access restrictions. …
A practical guide to self-hosting Chinese open-weight AI models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM finds that open weight does not guarantee easy deployment, with hardware costs driven by total parameter…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on July 21 that Chinese companies using model distillation to learn from American AI systems could face sanctions, including Entity List designations, according…