Open-source catches closed in a year: from Sora 2 to MiniMax H3
Obvious_Set5239 · reddit · 2026-08-29
The author observes a repeating pattern in AI video: open source catches closed source roughly one year later.
- Luma's closed model (summer 2024) delivered what OpenAI promised with Sora 1 but never shipped publicly; Wan 2.2 matched it open-source by summer 2025.
- Sora 2 landed September 2025; Minimax H3, a (kind of) open-source model, caught up by summer 2026 — again about a year.
- DALL·E 2 to Flux 1 followed a similar 1-year gap.
The author also shares a bad Luma subscription experience: quickly hitting monthly limits and finding no cancellation button on the site.
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