Video AI: MiniMax challenges ByteDance with low price, open weights for new H3 model
- Source
- South China Morning Post - Business
- Source link
- https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3362540/video-ai-minimax-challenges-bytedance-low-price-open-weights-new-h3-model?utm_source=rss_feed
- Published
- 2026-07-31 10:30:07
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-07-31 10:43:24
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- China
- Organisations
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- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
Chinese AI firm MiniMax has launched H3, its newest multimodal video generation model, pledging to break closed-source “dominance” through open weights and competitive pricing – as rival ByteDance rolls out its latest Seedance 2.5 model. H3 was currently the world’s most powerful AI model in video editing, according to benchmark platform Artificial Analysis. However, it trailed Google’s Gemini Omni Flash in text-to-video tasks, and ranked behind both ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni...
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