fal AI Releases: MiniMax H3 Max

ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one fal release so far: MiniMax H3 Max on Aug 27, 2026. fal's MiniMax H3 Max generates 5-second video in under 3 seconds. The entry below has primary-source links, key numbers and the episode where we covered it live.

1 release1 episodecovered Aug 27, 2026

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MiniMax H3 Max

fal's MiniMax H3 Max generates 5-second video in under 3 seconds

fal Research debuted MiniMax H3 Max, a post-train of the open-weight MiniMax H3 that ranks #1 on image-to-video and #3 on text-to-video on Artificial Analysis while generating five-second clips in under three seconds — 2.53s in the live on-air test. Priced at $0.04/second at 768p (promo until Sept 1), with a weights release planned. The speed puts it alone on the speed-versus-quality Pareto frontier.

2.53s to generate a 5-second clip, live on the show#1 image-to-video on Artificial Analysis (#3 T2V)$0.04/s at 768p until Sept 1