Companies & models
MiniMax's model and product dynamics: M series large models, voice and multimodal capabilities, open-source and commercialization progress.
MiniMax's open-source image model H3-Image supports native 4K (4096×4096 pixels) generation and can take up to 16 reference images. The author tested that it can deduce orthogonal three-view drawings and mechanical exploded views based on product appearance images, and reduce the plasticity on details such as pores and freckles on human faces. The API price is 50% to 70% lower than that of mainstream competitors, with a 50% discount on the first week's 16MP requests.
DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed the registration of AI models for overseas markets, successfully navigating the process of open-sourcing large models and overseas licensing compliance; the UK has committed to funding a £100 million AI biosecurity lab, with support from OpenAI and Anthropic.
On November 11th, major large model manufacturers such as Zhipu, MiniMax, Qwen Office, Alibaba Cloud, and Qoder launched a 50% discount Token event on Tmall. MiniMax's three monthly cards, Alibaba Cloud's two monthly cards, Zhipu's weekly card, Qwen Office's basic version membership monthly card, and Qoder's monthly card are all eligible for the discount, with the lowest price at 19.9 yuan. This marks the beginning of large models entering the mass consumer market.
Unemployment Labs, by analyzing the random number initialization layout in public model weights, discovered DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K3.
Why it matters: By reversing the random number layout in the model weights to train the hardware, it provides a reproducible technical evidence path for export control disputes.
vLLM BlogFeatured6060The vLLM-Omni team has integrated MiniMax H3-Image into NVIDIA Vera Rubin. With a four-card SP4 configuration, the native 4096×4096 image-to-image short prompt benchmark median latency is 0.87 seconds, and the throughput of four copies SP1×DP4 reaches 6115 images per hour.
MiniMax NewsFeatured8080MiniMax has released an open-source weight image generation model based on H3, H3-Image, which supports text-to-image, reference image generation, and image editing, capable of generating 4096 × 4096 4K images within 10 seconds, and supports up to 16 reference images.
Why it matters: The official provides 4K generation speed, reference image quantity, and pricing range, which can be used to judge the gap between open-source image models and closed-source solutions.
