# 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.

- Published: 2026-11-11T06:08:31.146Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-11-11/minimax-releases-open-weights-for-a-33-billion-parameter-mod
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3-Image), [MiniMax Research](https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3-image), [Crypto Briefing](https://cryptobriefing.com/minimax-h3-image-open-weight-4k-model/)

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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