--- title: MiniMax H3 Open Weights Release Comes With Major Limits description: MiniMax released the Base weights for its H3 audio-video generation model on August 3, with ComfyUI adding native support the same day via version 0.30.0. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/e250p2kba twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MiniMax H3 Open Weights Release Comes With Major Limits | daily.dev og:description: MiniMax released the Base weights for its H3 audio-video generation model on August 3, with ComfyUI adding native support the same day via version 0.30.0. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/e250p2kba og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/E250P2KBa.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MiniMax H3 Open Weights Release Comes With Major Limits **[Rajeev R. Sharma](https://daily.dev/sources/vcvyeh9h4cczsbsvu21b0)** · [@ra_jeeves](https://daily.dev/ra_jeeves) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MiniMax released the Base weights for its H3 audio-video generation model on August 3, with ComfyUI adding native support the same day via version 0.30.0. The optimized ComfyUI artifact package reduces the download to ~42.5 GB through pruning, Int8 quantization, and dynamic memory offloading, enabling local runs on GPUs like an RTX 3060 — though real-world reports show system RAM (64 GB+) is critical. Key limitations: only the Base layer is public (Context-IR and Regenerate-2K are not released), the H3 Community License explicitly excludes the US, EU, UK, and South Korea, and commercial use above $20M annual revenue requires separate authorization. Developers in permitted regions can run meaningful local workflows, but the full hosted 2K pipeline cannot be reproduced from the published weights alone. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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