1. Summary
MiniMax's revenue for the first half of 2026 reached $116.6 million, an increase of 283.1% compared to the same period last year finance.biggo.jp. The revenue structure has shifted alongside a surge in income from the Open Platform. Parallel to this, the company's stock price has also risen. In the Hong Kong market, the company's shares recorded 318.00 HKD, up 4.95% finance.biggo.jp.
Additionally, a separate development has occurred: the U.S.-based company Agora announced a collaboration with MiniMax regarding real-time conversational AI finance.biggo.jp.
2. Plans, Pricing, and Usage Limits
The pricing for "H3 Max" provided by fal.ai is $0.08 (approx. ¥12.8) per second for 768p [ASCII.jp]. Generating a 15-second clip requires $1.2 (approx. ¥192) [ASCII.jp]. A free tier is also available for trial [ASCII.jp].
3. Official announcements
2026-07-31 — MiniMax announced the video generation model "MiniMax H3" [ASCII.jp]
2026-02-13 — MiniMax released the "MiniMax M2.5" model [minimax.io]
2025-12-26 — MiniMax released the multilingual model "MiniMax M2.1" [minimaxi.com]
4. Key Events (Chronological)
- 2026-09-04 — OpenAI announced its latest model "GPT-6 Astra," causing AI-related stocks in China to rise (see Summary) [Investing.com]
- 2026-08-31 — fal.ai released "MiniMax H3 Max," an optimized version of MiniMax H3 [ASCII.jp][shiritomo]
- 2026-08-28 — MiniMax's enterprise AI revenue surged by 283% year-on-year for the first half of the year (see Summary) finance.biggo.jp
- 2026-08-28 — Agora announced a collaboration with MiniMax regarding real-time conversational AI (see Summary) finance.biggo.jp
- 2026-08-28 — An AI anime video titled "The Daily Life of Mikan Cat and Yona Cat," created using MiniMax, was published on YouTube [YouTube]
- 2026-08-27 — MLX-VLM v0.6.17 fixed a sparse-index compilation re-trace leak for MiniMax-M3 MLX-VLM v0.6.17
- 2026-08-11 — A project to run MiniMax H3 natively on Apple Silicon was published on GitHub [Hacker News]
- 2026-08-03 — It was reported that ComfyUI began Day-0 support for MiniMax H3 [Hacker News]
- 2026-06-20 — Benchmark results for MiniMax M3 in coding tasks were reported [Thinkwright]
- 2026-04-12 — MiniMax M2.7 was released as open source [Hacker News]
- 2026-02-13 — MiniMax released M2.5 [minimax.io]
- 2025-12-26 — MiniMax released the multilingual model "MiniMax M2.1" [minimaxi.com]
5. Community Reaction and User Experience
Researchers on X have pointed out that the underlying technology for HUMAIN M3 is MiniMax [KuCoin]. There have been expressions of surprise regarding H3 Max's increased speed while maintaining quality [ASCII.jp]. Anthropic mentioned suspicions of distillation attacks by other companies, including MiniMax [Hacker News].
6. Sources
Video generation AI "MiniMax H3" evolves rapidly, delivering 5-second videos in 3 seconds - Niconico News (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-31)
Video generation AI "MiniMax H3" evolves rapidly, delivering 5-second videos in 3 seconds (1/5) - ASCII.jp (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-31)
Daily life of Mikan cat and Yona cat #aivideo #anime #Minimax - YouTube (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-28)
v0.6.17 (MLX-VLM, 2026-08-27)
v0.28.0 (vLLM, 2026-08-27)
MiniMax H3 AI video generation fascinates creators... - x.com (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-24)
koboldcpp-1.119 (KoboldCpp, 2026-08-16)
v0.27.0 (vLLM, 2026-08-11)
v0.6.12 (MLX-VLM, 2026-08-11)
v0.26.0 (vLLM, 2026-07-27)
v0.6.5 (MLX-VLM, 2026-07-17)
v0.25.0 (vLLM, 2026-07-12)
v0.6.4 (MLX-VLM, 2026-07-07)
v0.24.0 (vLLM, 2026-06-30)
v0.23.0 (vLLM, 2026-06-15)
v0.22.0 (vLLM, 2026-05-29)
v0.20.0 (vLLM, 2026-04-28)
v0.31.3 (MLX LM, 2026-04-22)
v0.31.0 (MLX LM, 2026-03-07)
v0.30.4 (MLX LM, 2026-01-20)
v0.30.1 (MLX LM, 2026-01-06)
v0.28.4 (MLX LM, 2025-12-04)
AI video that took 4.5 minutes now takes 79 seconds: Full record of speeding up MiniMax H3 on RTX 5090 over 3 weeks (CloseBox) 3rd Photo/Image - TechnoEdge (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-06)
AI video that took 4.5 minutes now takes 79 seconds: Full record of speeding up MiniMax H3 on RTX 5090 over 3 weeks (CloseBox) - TechnoEdge (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-06)
Qwen3.8 27b for agentic coding and next .... what? (Reddit r/LocalLLaMA, 2026-09-05)
MiniMax H3 derivative model revolutionizes video industry thanks to... - x.com (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-05)
fal.ai offers free trials for "H3 Max," generating 5-second videos in under 3 seconds; launches "fal.live," a livestreaming site where viewers' votes decide the next scene - Ledge.ai (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-05)
v0.4.0 (llama.cpp, 2026-09-05)
MiniMax CTO Olive Song claims that AI agents need a "1-million-token brain" rather than "larger text models" - BigGo Finance (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-05)
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN M3 AI model is based on MiniMax technology - KuCoin (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-04)
99.9% on AGI capability test: OpenAI's new model "GPT-6 Astra" arrives - PC Watch (Google News: OpenAI, 2026-09-04)
OpenAI announces Astra, Chinese AI stocks rise—MiniMax up 6% - Investing.com - FX | Stock Market | Finance | Financial News (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-04)
New milestone for Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI: HUMAIN partners with MiniMax to announce Arabic large-scale model - BigGo Finance (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-04)
OpenAI distributes daily reset rights to paid users until they can use GPT-6 Astra - PC Watch (Google News: OpenAI, 2026-09-04)
DeepSeek releases V4, announces Flash and Pro to challenge competitors in performance and pricing - Mezha. News of Ukraine. (Google News: DeepSeek, 2026-09-04)
The otherworldly nature of RTX 5090 gaming laptops that crushed the pride of custom desktop enthusiasts - pc.watch.impress.co.jp (Google News: RTX 5090 LLM, 2026-09-04)
PCs equipped with RTX Spark to be released in October; one-click localization for Hermes and OpenClaw also available - PC Watch (Google News: DGX Spark, 2026-09-04)
Fumaine Announces AI Model Based on MiniMax Platform - Investing.com - FX | Stock Market | Finance | Financial News (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-03)
"Gemini 3.8 Flash" arrives; claims Google's best in inference and coding, with strong visual capabilities - PC Watch (Google News: Gemini, 2026-09-03)
Zeng Ming: "OpenAI and Anthropic are highly unlikely to become 'big winners of the AI-native era'"; companies with hierarchical organizations to disappear - BigGo Finance (Google News: OpenAI, 2026-09-03)
Three highlights this morning 2026.09.03 | Gemini 3.8 Flash released, token increase with no price hike / Claude operates PC in background / fal's H3 Max Turbo generates 5-second videos in 1.5 seconds - YouTube (Google News: Gemini, 2026-09-03)
H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control (Reddit r/LocalLLaMA, 2026-09-02)
Countdown begins for OpenAI's next AI "Astra"; security capabilities described as "critical" - PC Watch (Google News: OpenAI, 2026-09-02)
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs announces spatial intelligence omni-model "Atlas," generating 3D spaces and bullet-time footage from a few images - ITmedia AI+ (ITmedia AI+, 2026-09-02)
Could viewer-participatory "endless AI programs" become possible? "Mini Max H3 Max" arrives, capable of generating video in less than real-time - Nico Nico News (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-02)
Could viewer-participatory "endless AI programs" become possible? "Mini Max H3 Max" arrives, capable of generating video in less than real-time - news.infoseek.co.jp (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-02)
Could viewer-participatory "endless AI programs" become possible? "Mini Max H3 Max" arrives, capable of generating video in less than real-time - Infoseek (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-02)
Comparable to Opus 4.8, image-capable "DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp" released for free - PC Watch (Google News: DeepSeek, 2026-09-02)
Is it silly to get a 64GB Strix Halo (Framework Desktop) ~$2000? (Reddit r/LocalLLaMA, 2026-09-02)
openclaw 2026.8.2 (OpenClaw, 2026-09-02)
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations (Hacker News Frontpage, 2026-09-01)
Could viewer-participatory "endless AI programs" become possible? "Mini Max H3 Max" arrives, capable of generating video in less than real-time - ITmedia (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-01)
LM Studio AI agent "Bionic" Linux version arrives - PC Watch (Google News: LM Studio, 2026-09-01)
MiniMax H3 Max generation speed exceeds playback speed; stock price temporarily surged 19% in Hong Kong market - BigGo Finance (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-01)
Chinese AI from the perspective of Silicon Valley VCs: Sanctions failed to contain it, instead creating a "monster" - PANews (Google News: DeepSeek, 2026-09-01)
SlopTV: an infinite livestream of AI slop generated from youtube chat comments, Minimax H3 on 2x5090 (Reddit r/LocalLLaMA, 2026-09-01)
AI anime and dramas surging in China; 89 of the top 100 anime and dramas on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, are AI-generated - GIGAZINE (GIGAZINE, 2026-08-31)
Consistent characters: Google releases new video AI "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash" - PC Watch (Google News: Gemini, 2026-08-31)
AI automates its own safety research, developing methods surpassing humans in 6 hours. Anthropic's "AAR" - PC Watch (Google News: Anthropic, 2026-08-31)
A month where $0.14 videos became 35x faster—what disappeared from video generation AI was "waiting time" [Editorial Summary] - shiritomo (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-31)
Video generation AI "MiniMax H3" evolves with explosive speed, delivering 5-second videos in 3 seconds - Nico Nico News (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-31)
Video generation AI "MiniMax H3" evolves with explosive speed, delivering 5-second videos in 3 seconds - ASCII.jp (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-31)
Video generation AI "MiniMax H3" evolves with explosive speed, delivering 5-second videos in 3 seconds (ASCII) - Yahoo! News (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-31)
Creating this much for free! Local verification and explanation of MiniMax Music 3 music generation - YouTube (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-29)
Free LM Studio accelerates inference with DFlash/DSpark/MTP - PC Watch (Google News: LM Studio, 2026-08-28)
Google releases video generation AI "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash," featuring "up to 4K upscaling," "continuation of video generation," "high-speed preview at low resolution," etc. - au Web Portal (Google News: Gemini, 2026-08-28)
Google releases video generation AI "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash," featuring "up to 4K upscaling," "continuation of video generation," "high-speed preview at low resolution," etc. - GIGAZINE (Google News: Gemini, 2026-08-28)
"Unsloth Desktop" arrives to break the wall of local LLMs! Integrating image generation, code execution, and API conversion into one app - ITmedia (Google News: LM Studio, 2026-08-28)
MiniMax surges as enterprise AI revenue drives 283% increase in first half - finance.biggo.jp (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-28)
How fal Research jumped to the top simply by making other companies' video generation AI "faster" - shiritomo (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-27)
OpenAI's in-house chip "Habanero" achieves performance significantly exceeding NVIDIA GB300 - PC Watch (Google News: OpenAI, 2026-08-27)
"Lolipop! AI Gateway by GMO Pepabo" begins offering seamless integration of AI models from 14 companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google with a single API key | GMO Internet Group Press Release - PR TIMES (Google News: Anthropic, 2026-08-25)
H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (HN 440pt, 99 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-08-11)
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (HN 334pt, 94 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-08-03)
MiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasks (HN 55pt, 19 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-06-20)
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (HN 184pt, 51 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-05-15)
MiniMax M2.7 Is Now Open Source (HN 84pt, 36 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-04-12)
Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs (HN 495pt, 126 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-03-10)
Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness (HN 608pt, 306 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-02-25)
Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax (HN 36pt, 16 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-02-24)
Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek, Moonshot (HN 156pt, 151 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-02-24)
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified (HN 207pt, 55 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-02-13)
MiniMax M2.5 (HN 55pt, 4 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-02-11)
Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal (HN 75pt, 15 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-01-20)
Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback (HN 66pt, 13 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2026-01-09)
MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming (HN 228pt, 81 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2025-12-26)
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (HN 60pt, 10 comments) (HN Search (backfill), 2025-10-05)
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN M3 AI model is based on MiniMax technology - KuCoin (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-04)
OpenAI announces Astra, Chinese AI stocks rise—MiniMax up 6% - Investing.com - FX | Stock Market | Finance | Financial News (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-09-04)
MiniMax surges as enterprise AI revenue grows 283% in first half - finance.biggo.jp (Google News: MiniMax, 2026-08-28)