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MiniMax launched H3-Image, an image generation model that outputs 16-megapixel (4K) images in roughly 10 seconds, supports up to 16 reference images, and offers precise prompt following and editing. It ships with open weights and is available via the MiniMax API, MiniMax Code, and Hailuo AI, while also entering Arena's battle mode for blind user voting.
MiniMax has released H3-Image with open weights, an image generation model derived from its H3 base that supports text-to-image, image reference and image editing. It can produce a 4096x4096 (about 16MP) 4K image in 10 seconds, which MiniMax claims is roughly 5x faster than mainstream alternatives, and accepts up to 16 reference images with what it calls the strongest instruction following among open models.
OpenCode announced that MiniMax M3.1 Flash is now available for free on its platform, letting developers invoke the model at zero cost inside coding workflows. The move lowers the barrier to AI coding assistance and signals Chinese model makers expanding ecosystem reach through developer tooling channels.
VeRL-Omni released v0.3.0, extending asynchronous execution to more multimodal RL workloads and making the V1 trainer the default. The release unifies generation, reward evaluation, policy updates and weight synchronization across image, video, audio and multimodal understanding post-training, with end-to-end recipes for MiniMax H3 and MiniCPM-o 4.5.