fal releases H3 Max, claiming top image-to-video rankings and 3-second generation for 5-second clips
- fal released H3 Max, a post-trained version of the open-weights MiniMax H3 model, for text-to-video and image-to-video generation through its API, Playground, and fal Agent.
- fal says H3 Max generates a five-second video in about three seconds, about 35 times the throughput of MiniMax's official H3 endpoint and 15 times faster on average than comparably rated models in its tests.
- Design Arena ranks H3 Max first on its recent image-to-video leaderboard at 1,341 Elo, ahead of official MiniMax H3 at 1,333, according to the release.
- Artificial Analysis ranks fal's H3 first on its Image-to-Video with Audio leaderboard at 1,201 Elo across 2,177 samples, ahead of Seedance 2.0, MiniMax H3, Veo 3.1, and Kling 3.0.
- fal post-trained MiniMax H3 on new data with an in-house reinforcement learning framework, while its inference team co-designed and optimized the serving stack around the evolving model.