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On 2026-11-05 Microsoft and fal put Kling v3 Pro, LTX-2.5 Fast/Pro, and MiniMax H3 Max/Turbo into Foundry public preview as a first-party Azure service (@Azure amplified 2026-11-06). Vendor: US hosting and first US-hosted Kling endpoint, with per-second pricing; more models and pricing-page listings planned in coming weeks.

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On November 3, model-compression company Pruna AI open-sourced P-H3-Image, which turns MiniMax-H3, the open-weights video model MiniMax released this summer, into a text-to-image and image-editing model. Per Pruna: sampling drops from 50 to 8 steps, a 4 MP image on one B200 goes from 12.4 s to 2.6 s, the 4-bit set is a 20 GB download (vs 143 GB for H3), and peak VRAM at 8 MP is about 21 GB. It renders 2 to 16 MP and edits with multiple reference images. Weights are on Hugging Face with native ComfyUI support. It keeps the MiniMax H3 Community License, which by default excludes the EU, UK, South Korea and the US.

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On October 31, independent evaluator Artificial Analysis released AA-Omniscience v1.1, its knowledge and hallucination benchmark and part of Intelligence Index v5. The question set shrinks from 6,000 to 3,000, dropping previously public and saturated questions, fixing errors and ambiguities, and adding new ones, and a new 300-question public set on Hugging Face is calibrated to the private set's difficulty, with 0.99 Pearson and Spearman correlation on Net Score. Gemini 4 Carbon (high) leads with a Net Score of 54, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 at 48 and Claude Fable 5.1 at 46; Fable 5.1 has the highest accuracy (68%) and Gemini 4 Argon the lowest hallucination rate (4%). Models score about 1.9 points lower than on v1 on average, and MiniMax M3.1 Flash drops 22 points. All figures are as reported by Artificial Analysis.

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On October 29 Pika released Pika H3 Flex, a joint audio-video generator post-trained on MiniMax H3, with weights on Hugging Face, code on GitHub, and ComfyUI and Diffusers support. Pika says it distilled sampling from 50 denoising steps to six, averages about 1.8x faster DiT denoising than Fal H3 Max at 768p, and can produce a 15-second clip with soundtrack in as little as about 7 seconds; the hosted API adds 1080p to 4K upscaling and five exportable audio stems (dialogue, score, SFX, foley, ambience). All speed and quality figures are vendor-reported.

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Researchers from NUS and CUHKSZ have introduced SolarRenderer (arXiv:2610.28630), a structure-conditioned generative reference rendering framework. Converting game engine grey-boxes, pose skeletons, semantic maps, and depth passes into photorealistic video, SolarRenderer adapts a frozen MiniMax-H3 33B backbone via lightweight control and 4-step generation LoRAs. Using structure-guided distribution matching, it renders stylized video in just 4 denoising steps (~12.3x faster than 50-step diffusion) and introduces a block-causal variant for real-time 768p streaming synthesis in generative game engines.

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On Oct 20, the FastVideo team at UCSD's Hao AI Lab open-sourced FastH3 Omni, a distilled version of MiniMax H3's reference-to-video-and-audio (Ref2VA) model that generates video with synchronized stereo audio from text plus up to nine images, video clips and voice references. Sampling drops from 50 steps to eight transformer evaluations, cutting end-to-end latency 5.6-11.9x on eight GB200s by the team's measurements. Training code is open, with NVFP4 weights for DGX Spark and RTX 5090 and ComfyUI support.

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On Oct 19 (UTC) fal released FLUX 3 Max, a video model built by fal Research with Black Forest Labs through post-training, reinforcement learning and inference optimization on top of the FLUX 3 foundation model. It handles text-to-video, image-to-video and keyframes, up to 20 seconds, at 720p or 1080p, with audio on by default. On Artificial Analysis's preliminary image-to-video arena it scores 1,139 Elo, level with Seedance 2.5 and within the confidence interval of leader MiniMax H3 (1,141), and fal says a 10-second clip takes about 12.45 seconds. A 75% launch discount runs until Nov 7, putting 720p at $0.0425 per second.

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The vLLM Project officially announced that PhysisServe's core physical-world serving techniques are being integrated into vLLM-Omni. Addressing the severe memory bottlenecks and latency spikes of multi-step video diffusion and physical AI generation, PhysisServe introduces cross-denoising-step pipeline parallelism across Transformer blocks, time-shared batching, and virtual-rank joint scheduling. Benchmarked on MiniMax H3 33B across 200 GPUs, it generates a chunk every 4.1 ms (~1,000 FPS without VAE decoding), while cutting single-GPU latency for Wan2.2 5B from 173 ms down to 98 ms.

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MiniMax officially announced M3.1 Flash, its next-generation lightweight frontier model (previously dominating leaderboards as the secret model Space Bunny across 200T+ tokens). Featuring a native 1M context window, flat-rate API pricing of $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M input/output tokens ($0.015 cache reads), and 3x faster inference at 1/3 the cost of M3. It surged +106 points to 1588 on LMSYS Code Arena: WebDev (#12 among open models), with full weights set for open release on October 23.

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MiniMax confirmed that Space Bunny, the anonymous model that led usage rankings on OpenRouter and elsewhere, was an early version of M3.1 Flash, and launched it on its API on October 19. Pay-as-you-go pricing is $0.15 input, $0.60 output and $0.015 cache read per million tokens, with a 1M context, text, image and video input, and an effort setting for thinking depth. Per MiniMax, it costs one third of M3 and runs 3x faster, scoring 73.7% on DeepSWE and 62.2% on Automation-Bench; the weights went live on Hugging Face on schedule on October 23 (MiniMax Community license, MXFP8), with day-0 support from Together, Inferact (vLLM) and LightSeek TokenSpeed.

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On Oct 9 the vLLM team, with Inferact, Red Hat and NVIDIA, shipped early Vera Rubin NVL72 support: CUDA 13.4 nightly images already serve DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM and MiniMax. Vendor-reported results: up to 7.84x per-GPU throughput vs GB200 on SemiAnalysis AgentX (MiniMax M3, matched interactivity) and up to 3.7x vs GB300 NVL72 on the MLPerf Inference v6.1 VLM benchmark (Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B).

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Unsloth shipped v0.1.900-beta on 2026-09-28 (PyPI unsloth 2026.9.12): Desktop runs Laya Decision models locally via a Jev-compatible /v1/systemone endpoint, adds a Skills CRUD editor and Library viewers for PDF/Office, and improves Apple Silicon with batched serving, structured outputs, and TurboQuant KV. Media pipelines claim ~4.5× LTX-2.3 clips, 1.7–6.3× VAE decode, and up to ~1 minute faster MiniMax-H3 first render with 25–29 GiB lower peak VRAM.

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