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MiniMax H3 (SGLang Diffusion), announced 2026-08-03, claims to match Seedance 2.0…

Brief

MiniMax H3 (SGLang Diffusion) is an open, research‑friendly model announced 2026-08-03 that the authors claim matches Seedance 2.0 at one-third the cost or free when run locally on 2× 5090 or 1 RTX 6000. H3 ingests text, images, video and audio in one context, outputs 5–15s native 2K/24fps clips with stereo, and supports day‑0 serving on NVIDIA and AMD hardware.

Why it matters

MiniMax H3 (SGLang Diffusion), announced 2026-08-03, claims to match Seedance 2.0 performance at one-third the cost, or $0 cost if run locally on 2× NVIDIA 5090 GPUs or a single RTX 6000.

Key details

  • H3 is multimodal (accepts text, image, video, audio in one context), produces 5–15s clips at native 2K, 24 fps with native stereo audio, supports day‑0 serving, and runs on NVIDIA Blackwell/Hopper and AMD MI355X/MI300X; released under a very friendly open/research license.
Source evidence

yes, our open model matches Seedance 2.0 at 1/3 the cost, or $0 if you run it locally on 2x 5090 or 1 RTX 6000.

and a lot of fun stuffs for open source and research communities to play with under a very friendly license.🩵

LMSYS Org (@lmsysorg)

@MiniMax_AI H3 is live in SGLang Diffusion, with day-0 serving support 🎬

This open model matches Seedance 2.0 at 1/3 the cost, or $0 if you run it locally on 2x 5090 or 1 RTX 6000.

With SGLang Diffusion, you can build visual concepts, motion design, e-commerce creatives, precise video edits, animation and stylized visuals, all locally on your own machine. No API bill, no waitlist.

H3 takes text, image, video and audio in a single context, and generates 5-15s clips at native 2K, 24fps with native stereo audio.

SGLang Diffusion also runs on @NVIDIAAI Blackwell and Hopper, and @AMD MI355X / MI300X.

Let's create something with MiniMax H3 👇

Video

— https://nitter.net/lmsysorg/status/2084110114022396018#m