MiniMax H3 Max

• 🆕 Top "Max" tier of MiniMax's H3 video family, released August 2026
• 👁️ Image-to-video: animates a supplied still using a text prompt
• 📏 H3 line outputs up to 15 seconds at 2K resolution
• 💬 Native stereo audio — dialogue, effects and music generated jointly
• 🧠 Omni-modal context mixing text, images, video and audio
• 🔧 Companion text-to-video and reference-to-video variants share the same base
• 🏢 Base H3 shipped as open weights on Hugging Face
• ⚡ Successor tier to H3 and H3 Enhanced from July–August 2026

MiniMax

MiniMax is an AI company building generative models across multiple modalities, with a focus that spans both language understanding and audio creation. Their rapid release cadence in early 2026—delivering several new models within just a few months—reflects…

MiniMax H3 Max (image-to-video) is the highest tier in MiniMax's H3 video generation family, dated August 2026 in this catalog. It takes a source image plus a natural-language motion description and animates it into a coherent clip. Its text-driven counterpart is MiniMax H3 Max.

The underlying H3 system, announced by MiniMax in July 2026, is described by the lab as a general-purpose omni-modal generation model that jointly understands text, images, video and audio in one context and generates video with native stereo audio at up to 2K resolution and 15 seconds in length. Audio is generated jointly with the video rather than added in a separate post-processing step. MiniMax cites components including Contextual Omni Representation, H3-VAE, an H3-Omni Transformer and in-context regeneration.

Within the family, this model sits above the original MiniMax H3 image-to-video endpoint from July 2026 and the August MiniMax H3 Enhanced and MiniMax H3 R2V Enhanced tiers, which extend the same base model to prompt-enhanced and reference-driven workflows.

MiniMax has not published tier-by-tier benchmark figures for the Max variant, so no performance numbers are quoted here; capabilities such as 2K output and multimodal referencing derive from the H3 model card and MiniMax's own documentation.