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Video AI: MiniMax challenges ByteDance with low price, open weights for new H3 model
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Fusion42 · 31 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Chinese AI firm MiniMax has launched H3, a new multimodal video generation AI model with open weights and competitive pricing, challenging ByteDance's dominance in video AI. H3 targets commercial content creation and will release its full model weights to support customization and hardware compatibility, under a community license favoring small organisations.
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You face fresh opportunity in video AI from MiniMax’s open weights and lower prices, opening direct access to advanced tech that was once closed off. Your customers can now customise models freely and run them on diverse AI hardware, lowering barriers and raising the stakes in commercial content creation.
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