--- title: MiniMax H3 First Look — Beats Google Veo & Sora for a... description: MiniMax H3 is a new open-weight omni AI video generation model from a Chinese AI lab that can generate 15-second 2K resolution videos for just $0.081,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-h3-first-look-beats-google-veo-sora-for-a-fraction-of-the-cost-6kiqrxptv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MiniMax H3 First Look — Beats Google Veo & Sora for a FRACTION of the Cost | daily.dev og:description: MiniMax H3 is a new open-weight omni AI video generation model from a Chinese AI lab that can generate 15-second 2K resolution videos for just $0.081,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-h3-first-look-beats-google-veo-sora-for-a-fraction-of-the-cost-6kiqrxptv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6kiqRXPtV.png og:image:alt: MiniMax H3 First Look — Beats Google Veo & Sora for a FRACTION of the Cost 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 First Look — Beats Google Veo & Sora for a FRACTION of the Cost **[Execute Automation](https://daily.dev/sources/executeautomation)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MiniMax H3 is a new open-weight omni AI video generation model from a Chinese AI lab that can generate 15-second 2K resolution videos for just $0.081, significantly cheaper than Google Veo or OpenAI's Sora. The model accepts up to 12 multimodal references (text, image, audio, video) in a unified context and produces outputs with consistent lip sync, lighting, and subject consistency. It is available via the Halo AI platform with 2,000 free credits, and the weights are publicly accessible on Hugging Face. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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