# MiniMax Releases Open Weights for a Music Model That Generates Five-Minute Songs With Vocals

Music 3 pairs an 8-billion-parameter model initialized from Qwen3-8B with a 0.6-billion-parameter acoustic model, outputs 32 kHz stereo, and permits commercial use.

- Published: 2026-08-18T06:24:23.025Z
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- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [MiniMax](https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model), [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/17/minimax-releases-minimax-music3/), [ComfyUI Blog](https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-music-3-state-of-the-art)

MiniMax published downloadable weights for Music 3, a model that takes lyrics and a structured description and returns a complete song with vocals, up to five minutes long, as 32 kHz 16-bit stereo audio. The company's release post describes…

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