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A five-minute song now costs a GPU, not a studio: MiniMax opens Music3's weights
MiniMax released Music3 with open weights, generating complete five-minute songs at 32kHz stereo from lyrics and a structured caption. It runs under 24GB of VRAM, and down to 8GB with offloading.
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When a 15-second 2K clip costs $1.95, who still buys a video pipeline? MiniMax ships H3
MiniMax launched H3 on July 31, an omni-modal model that takes text, images, video, and audio in one call and returns 2K clips with native stereo sound at roughly 13 cents per second.
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Four Chinese labs ship frontier-parity coding models in three-week window
Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max, Moonshot's Kimi K2.7, MiniMax M3, and Zhipu's GLM-5.2 all launched in May and June 2026, matching Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at one-fifth to one-thirtieth the per-token cost.
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MiniMax M3 ships first open-weight model with 1M-token context and native computer-use capabilities
Released in June 2026, MiniMax M3 combines frontier-tier software-engineering performance with a 1-million-token context window and multi-modal computer-use features, all under open weights.
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Singapore took 99 percent of the AI-infrastructure money
Tracxn counts US$1.2 bn of disclosed Southeast Asian AI-infrastructure funding since 2019. One city banked nearly all of it, and that tells you who builds and who rents.
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Chinese AI models run at one-sixth US cost, gain SEA adoption via open weights
Chinese models including DeepSeek V3, Qwen 3.7 Max, and MiniMax 3 now match Western flagship performance at one-sixth to one-quarter the inference cost, according to a RAND report published early 2026, and are spreading across Southeast Asia through open-weight releases and regional data-center investment.
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MiniMax M3 ships one-million-token coding model but withholds training code
Chinese startup MiniMax launched M3 on June 1, 2026 with claims of topping GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on benchmarks, yet has not released training code or inference operators, leaving it in open-weight territory rather than fully open source.
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Four Chinese labs ship frontier-grade open-weights coding models in 12-day window
Z.ai's GLM-5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 all landed within a fortnight, hitting near-frontier benchmarks on agentic coding at under a third of Claude Opus 4.7's inference cost.