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FastH3-Omni: From Announcement to Open-Source Release
FastVideo and partners announced FastH3-Omni's open-source date on Oct 14, then released the model with full training code, speeding up video generation nearly 12x.
2026-10-14 ~ 2026-10-21 · 2 episodes · 6 posts
Episode 1 · FastH3-Omni Set for October 20 Open-Source Release (2026-10-14, 2 posts)
FastVideo, Nuva Lab and Reactor will open-source FastH3-Omni, a port of MiniMax's real-time video model H3, on October 20. It supports audio-video synchronized generation with reference-image conditioning and runs locally on RTX GPUs, DGX Spark and Apple Silicon.
- FastH3-Omni Announced: Open Post-Trained Version of MiniMax's Realtime H3 Coming Oct 20 — ostrisai · 2026-10-14
- FastH3-Omni lands Oct 20 with open weights, local RTX/Spark/MLX support — Vandy_simp · 2026-10-14
Episode 2 · FastVideo Open-Sources FastH3 Omni with Up to 12x Faster Real-Time Video Generation (2026-10-21, 4 posts)
Hao AI Lab's FastVideo team open-sourced FastH3 Omni, built on MiniMax-H3 with full training code, delivering 5.6–11.9x lower latency and 12x faster real-time generation on Blackwell GPUs; community pipelines now produce 15-second videos for about $0.14, roughly 80x cheaper than Seedance.
- FastH3 Omni open-sourced: reference-conditioned video with synced audio, 5.6-11.9x lower latency — mnmunknown · 2026-10-21
- FastVideo open-sources MiniMax FastH3 Omni with training code, 12x faster on Blackwell — multimodalart · 2026-10-21
- FastH3 OmniRef Open-Sourced: Up to 11.9x Faster Reference-to-Video, Day-0 ComfyUI Support — Vandy_simp · 2026-10-21
- Open-weights video + Opus editing cuts 15s clip cost to ~$0.14, ~80x cheaper than Seedance — mickeyxfriedman · 2026-10-21