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MiniMax releases open-weights H3-Image model for 16MP generation and editing

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MiniMax released MiniMax-H3-Image, a 33B open-weights model that generates and edits 16-megapixel images in six sampling steps. Community posts show it running locally on 8GB GPUs and Apple Silicon with quantization.

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Timeline · 19 reports

  1. 2026-11-14 02:48 · DEV Community — AI
    Run Arete-27B (Re-Trained Qwen3.8-27B) on a 16GB GPU: Complete Local Vision & 256K Context Deployment Guide with llama.cpp GGUF
  2. 2026-11-13 21:08 · r/StableDiffusion
    MiniMax H3 Image is kind of insane for editing at 60MP - Concept to Realistic
  3. 2026-11-13 17:57 · r/StableDiffusion
    Minimax H3 Image is awesome - Please don't confuse photographic realism with sharpness
  4. 2026-11-13 17:13 · DEV Community — AI
    MiniMax H3 Image prompts for photos that look like someone took them
  5. 2026-11-13 05:54 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Run MiniMax H3 Image 33B on an 8GB GPU: Complete Local ComfyUI Deployment Guide for 6-Step 16MP Ultra-HD Generation & Image Editing
  6. 2026-11-13 04:34 · r/StableDiffusion
    I got MiniMax H3-Image running on a MacBook air with just ~3GB memory and almost no speed loss
  7. 2026-11-12 22:07 · AlphaSignal
    MiniMax Drops MiniMax-H3-Image, a 33B Open Model Generating 16MP Photos in 6 Steps
  8. 2026-11-12 18:56 · r/StableDiffusion
    Minimax H3 image T2I with blank reference
  9. 2026-11-12 16:26 · r/StableDiffusion
    Been testing MiniMax H3-Image for futuristic magazine covers — portraits, colors, and typography
  10. 2026-11-12 15:32 · r/StableDiffusion
    MOSS-Image vs MiniMax H3-Image on 15 identical prompts — the gap is smaller than I expected
  11. 2026-11-12 08:28 · r/StableDiffusion
    Minimax-H3-Image 2 step LORA is out
  12. 2026-11-12 04:29 · r/StableDiffusion
    Native 100 megapixel (no upscaling) Minimax H3 Image Generation on 5090 @ 240 seconds.
  13. 2026-11-12 03:59 · r/StableDiffusion
    Free simple Workflow Realistic 1Girl Minimax H3 Image
  14. 2026-11-12 02:45 · r/StableDiffusion
    Tried MiniMax H3 Image with some surreal prompts. It handled them better than I expected.
  15. 2026-11-11 21:40 · r/StableDiffusion
    First testings with MiniMax H3 Image - I am happy with it
  16. 2026-11-11 17:51 · r/StableDiffusion
    Minimax H3 Image vs Moss Image art styles
  17. 2026-11-11 16:02 · r/StableDiffusion
    MiniMax-H3-Image at 16 MP, 6 steps, ~20 s per image
  18. 2026-11-11 15:20 · r/StableDiffusion
    Fizgig 9.6: train LoRAs on MiniMax H3 Image
  19. 2026-11-11 05:36 · r/StableDiffusion
    MiniMax H3 Image 20MP Workflow

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