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Morning Edition · Wednesday, November 11, 2026Published at 1:08 AM EST · New York
MiniMax Releases Open Weights for a 33-Billion-Parameter Model That Generates 16-Megapixel Images, With a License Reported to Exclude the US, EU and UK
H3-Image generates 4096-by-4096 images in six distilled steps without classifier-free guidance, and its license restrictions follow a pattern that MiniMax tied to Hollywood copyright litigation.
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based AI company, released H3-Image on November 10 as an open-weight model for image generation and editing. The Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data reports that the model creates 16-megapixel images in about 10 se…
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