MiniMax H3 and ByteDance Seedance 2.5 Launch Hours Apart
- MiniMax and ByteDance released updated AI video-generation models within hours of each other on July 31, 2026.
- MiniMax said its new H3 model produces video with more natural motion and greater coherence.
- ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 update adds enhanced video-editing functions.
- Bloomberg describes the near-simultaneous releases as part of aggressive advances by Chinese AI companies in video generation.