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Morning Edition · Sunday, November 1, 2026Published at 1:20 AM EST · New York
Pika releases H3 Flex, a six-step open video and audio model post-trained on MiniMax's H3
The 33-billion-parameter model is distilled from 50 sampling steps to six and ships as two LoRA adapters on the Chinese base model, and it ranks seventh on DesignArena's text-to-video board.
Pika Labs released H3 Flex, a 33-billion-parameter video model with synchronized audio. It is post-trained from MiniMax-H3, the open-weight video model from the Chinese lab MiniMax. According to the Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data,…
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Chinese Open-Weight Models Emerge as the Non-US AI Stack
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