MiniMax releases open-weight H3 video model, undercuts ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 on price and some benchmarks
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MiniMax releases open-weight H3 video model, undercuts ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 on price and some benchmarks
MiniMax launched its new video generation model H3 with open weights, positioning it as a low cost rival to ByteDance's Seedance 2.0.
MiniMax says H3 beats Seedance 2.0 on some tasks, though the article does not specify which benchmarks or by how much.
MiniMax frames the release as support for the open-source community and says H3 is built to run on a broad range of hardware.
The move adds to a wave of Chinese firms (including Moonshot's Kimi K3) pushing open-weight AI models even as US policymakers debate restrictions on them, and as Goldman Sachs predicts some Chinese developers may shift toward paid-weight licensing instead.
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