MiniMax-H3 Weights Finally Land on Hugging Face — a 33B Dense Video Model, Not the MoE People Expected

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MiniMax pushed the MiniMax-H3 repository live on Hugging Face within the last several hours (984 downloads at time of check), closing a promise that was still unfulfilled on August 1 when no repo or model card existed. The model card shows 33 billion parameters in a dense single-stream transformer — three modules (H3-Context-IR, H3-Base at 768p, H3-Regenerate-2K) producing 4–15 second clips at up to 2K/24fps with native 32kHz stereo audio, recommended on 4 GPUs via SGLang. It ships under the bespoke 'MiniMax H3 Community License,' not the MIT license MiniMax used on its earlier M-series checkpoints, so read the terms before self-hosting commercially.