Simon Willison Tests Running MiniMax Video Model Locally on Mac
mishig25 · x · 2026-08-05
Developer Simon Willison shared his hands-on experience running the MiniMax video generation model locally on an M5 Pro Mac.
- Prompt: a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket
- Hardware & Resources: Required downloading a massive 115GB model file
- Generation Time: Took about 45 minutes to generate the video clip
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