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Open video weights reached local machines

MiniMax H3 has moved from a promised open-weight release to a usable local video stack. MiniMax published H3-Base weights for 768p output, ComfyUI documents a 42.5 GB optimized footprint with dynamic offloading, and Ethan Mollick reports a local clip with sound generated in about three minutes; the 2K regeneration and Context-IR modules remain hosted.

Less than two years later, this is the quality of the video of an otter using a laptop on an airplane that I get (with sound) from an open weights AI video generator, MiniMax H3, running entirely on my local computer. It took about 3 minutes to generate. Rapid progress, indeed. https://t.co/K1lovl83Aq

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Open video weights reached local inference +0.38

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