MiniMax Releases H3 Omni-Modal Model: Supports Video and Native Audio Generation
RisingSayak · x · 2026-08-06
MiniMax has released its new H3 model, hailed as a major win for open-source. It is a 33B parameter DiT architecture general-purpose omni-modal generative system.
Key features include:
- Multimodal Input: Supports unified understanding of text, image, video, and audio.
- Audio-Video Generation: Capable of generating video with native stereo audio up to 15 seconds long, 2K resolution, and 24 FPS.
- Open Source: The base pipeline is fully integrated into the Hugging Face Diffusers library with various memory and speed optimizations enabled.
- Multilingual: Stable support for 11 languages including Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean.
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