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What shipped in AI.

Releases from frontier labs, major companies and research institutes — grouped by model, deduplicated across HuggingFace, OpenRouter and official blogs.

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MiniMax-H3-Image

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

Imageopen

Open-weights MiniMax model that generates images from text and edits up to 16 reference images in one checkpoint. According to the model card, it outputs images of about 16 megapixels without an upscaler, using 6 sampling steps.

Week of October 12, 20261 model

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Native multimodal mixture-of-experts model for coding, agentic workflows, computer use, and cybersecurity. It accepts text, image, and video input with up to 1M tokens of context and returns text. The vendor reports 76.2 on BankerToolBench and 82.2 on CyberGym.

1 variantFree

Week of August 3, 20261 model

Music3

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

Audioopen

MiniMax Music 3 generates complete songs up to five minutes long from lyrics and a style description, using an 8B global LLM for song structure and a 0.6B local LLM for acoustic detail.

Week of July 27, 20261 model

MiniMax-H3

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

Videoopen

MiniMax-H3 is an omni-modal system that understands text, images, video and audio and generates videos with native stereo audio up to 2K and 15 seconds. The base stage outputs 768p, and a regeneration stage produces the 2K version.

Week of June 1, 20261 model

MiniMax M3

◆ Underrated

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

VisionReasoningopenAPI

MiniMax is barely known in the West — but its M3 model on OpenRouter ($0.30/$1.20 per MTok) is one of the cheapest 1M-context multimodal providers. Successor to Text-01 (4M context).

1 variantMXFP8