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Public story · 2026-07-31 · high
MiniMax says H3 generates 2K clips at under a third of rivals' cost, and shares jumped nearly 13% on the launch.
Why now: H3 launched July 30, and MiniMax hasn't released the weights it promised within days, so no outside benchmark has checked the cost or chip claims yet.
MiniMax launched H3 on July 30, an all-modality video model that generates 15-second 2K clips with stereo sound, per the company.
MiniMax says H3 generates 2K video at under a third of what mainstream rivals charge. That's the number that matters for anyone budgeting video generation into a product.
The model takes text, image, video, and audio as input. It can also edit existing footage or transfer motion from a reference clip, instead of only generating clips from scratch.
MiniMax also designed H3 to run on several Chinese-made chips, per the launch post.
Weights are due within days of the launch, and developers can already test the model through the Vercel AI Gateway and fal. MiniMax's stock jumped nearly 13% on the announcement.
Neither the cost figure nor the chip claim comes from an outside benchmark yet. Both come from MiniMax's own post.
The cost claim is the one to watch. A third of mainstream pricing is specific and checkable, and it will either hold once outside developers get the weights, or it won't.
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