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August 26, 2026
MiniMax H3 Wants to Show the Speaking Face
Our second field report on pushing a local, open-weights video model past its comfort zone: what ten minutes of long-form animation cost on one GPU, the single behavioural law behind most of the failures, and which story formats the model tells without a fight.
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August 17, 2026
One 3090, Ten Days, a Talking Squirrel: Our MiniMax H3 Field Report
We put MiniMax H3 — the open-weights video model that generates native stereo audio alongside its frames — on a single RTX 3090 and pushed until it broke. Install, real timings, hard limits, and a 94-second mafia film about a squirrel.
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April 24, 2026
7 Communication Workflows You Can Automate With AI Without Sounding Robotic
The safest AI wins for lean teams are rarely full-autopilot writing. They are structured workflows that save time while preserving human judgment.