aivideo.zone MiniMax Hailuo: AI video news and guides
Everything this site has written about MiniMax Hailuo, the AI video models behind Hailuo AI, H3 among them. Newest first, each with the source it came from.
One scene, three prompt formats
A screenwriter's guide to the three ways AI video models want a scene written: LTX reads a flowing paragraph, MiniMax H3 a tagged shot list with timed cuts, Kling a timeline pinned to keyframes. The same scene in each.
After Sora: the AI video APIs still taking requests
OpenAI switched off the Sora 2 API on 24 September with no replacement named. Four AI video APIs a Sora integration can move to — xAI, Google, MiniMax and Kling — and what each one asks of you.
ComfyUI 0.38: Seedance drafts, H3 ControlNet
ComfyUI 0.38 brings Fun-ControlNet-Union 2.0 to MiniMax H3, a Draft mode for ByteDance's Seedance 2.5, film colour spaces for grading and a lighter install — and drops its Sora nodes now that OpenAI's AI video API is gone.
LTX-2.5 or MiniMax H3?
Two open-weights AI video models that generate sound with the picture came out within a fortnight of each other. LTX-2.5 and MiniMax H3 compared on size, output, references and the licence terms that decide who may run them.
MiniMax opens H3's weights
MiniMax has published the weights of H3, the AI video model it launched on 31 July: a 33-billion-parameter transformer that generates picture and stereo sound together. The licence leaves out the EU, UK, South Korea and US.