{"slug": "pipenetwork-minimax-h3-mlx", "title": "PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx", "summary": "Simon Willison successfully ran MiniMax-H3, a text-to-video model, on an Apple M5 Max MacBook Pro using the PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx Python package, which ports the model to MLX. The process downloaded approximately 115 GB of model files and generated a video for the prompt 'a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket' in just under 45 minutes, though the audio was poor due to lack of prompt guidance.", "body_md": "This Python package ports it to MLX for running on Apple Silicon.\n\nI got it running on my M5 Max MacBook Pro. I cloned the repo and ran the model like this:\n\n```\n# First download the models\nuvx --from huggingface_hub hf download MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 \\\n  --include 'FL2VA/*' --exclude 'FL2VA/transformer/*'\nuvx --from huggingface_hub hf download pipenetwork/MiniMax-H3-MLX-8bit\n\n# Now run the prompt\nuv run --with mlx-vlm \\\n  --with-requirements requirements.txt python scripts/generate.py \\\n  \"a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket\" \\\n  -o skunk.mp4 \\\n  -c ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--MiniMaxAI--MiniMax-H3/snapshots/fa9c8ab1eaa21c8ae25e7e40b83b2e6002f340af/FL2VA \\\n  -t ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--pipenetwork--MiniMax-H3-MLX-8bit/snapshots/3ac52081470b0488921c3ec3ba84a39097bf2361\n```\n\nHere's the video I got for the prompt:\n\n`a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket`\n\nIt downloaded ~115 GB of model files, and the video generation took just under 45 minutes.\n\nThe video is impressive, but the audio is weird speech-like garbage, because I didn't provide any prompt guidance as to what the audio should be. The [prompting guide](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3/blob/main/docs/VIDEO_PROMPT_WRITING_GUIDE_base_en.md) (which I didn't read prior to this experiment) has a whole bunch of information on how to get this to work.\n\nTags: [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [mlx](https://simonwillison.net/tags/mlx), [text-to-video](https://simonwillison.net/tags/text-to-video), [minimax](https://simonwillison.net/tags/minimax)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pipenetwork-minimax-h3-mlx", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/minimax-h3-mlx/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-08-04 19:10:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-04 19:33:55.164458+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Simon Willison", "MiniMax-H3", "PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx", "Apple M5 Max", "MLX", "Hugging Face"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pipenetwork-minimax-h3-mlx", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pipenetwork-minimax-h3-mlx.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pipenetwork-minimax-h3-mlx.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pipenetwork-minimax-h3-mlx.jsonld"}}