MiniMax H3 Max, fal's Post-Trained Variant, Took the Top of Design Arena's Image-to-Video Board at 1,341 Elo
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fal's post-trained MiniMax H3 Max scored 1,341 Elo on Design Arena's image-to-video leaderboard on 2026-08-26, ahead of the base model it was trained from and every other entrant. Co-optimized with fal's inference stack, a 5-second 768p clip renders in under 3 seconds, and standard H3 on fal's stack runs about 15x faster than MiniMax's own inference. This is a serving-stack company beating a model lab at its own model, which is the pattern worth watching.