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pi-H3: 2โ€“4 Steps Without a VAE Decoder (will be released on Nov 16)

Some bold claims are made in the announcement, so I am looking forward to its release ๐Ÿ˜… We announce pi-H3 , the fastest version of MiniMax H3 [ 1 ] yet. pi-H3 generates video in just 2 or 4 sampling steps and directly predicts pixels at the final step, skipping the video VAE decoder. On a single Bโ€ฆ

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  1. 2026-11-11 04:50 ยท r/StableDiffusion
    pi-H3: 2โ€“4 Steps Without a VAE Decoder (will be released on Nov 16)

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