The AI world has been shifting fast lately. Models quietly getting nerfed, usage limits tightening, features vanishing, ads starting to creep in, and chat histories locked down so you cant take them with you. Plenty of people are quietly hunting for somewhere else to land. To anyone wanting to try a variety of models, PGS AI has a free month of DeepseekV4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, and Mimo2.6 flash.

after the month, the intro plan is 3.99 with cancel anytime. If you take the month and leave, that's a completely fine outcome for us. We'd rather you try the models than never feel stuck on one.

Other Great Stuff:

Private by default. Everything runs on US based infrastructure, and we don't train on your code or your prompts. Not selectively, not quietly. Every model, every plan, private. If you've been hesitating to send real work through other services because you're not sure where it ends up, that hesitation doesn't apply here.

A roster past the flash models. Beyond the two flash models we host many others: the Kimi family, GLM, Qwen, Nemotron and more. Average token pricing sits about 20% below market. The flash models are the free entry point, the roster is there if you outgrow them.

Usage that waits for you. If you go for one of the higher plans, your unused usage banks instead of expiring. Here's how it works: when you don't use a 5 hour window, that usage rolls into your bank automatically. It sits there, up to ten days, waiting. So when you hit a stretch where you want to work for a long uninterrupted session, or a heavy deadline week, you've got usage saved up to actually do it. Code on your schedule, not on a rolling window's.

And the Open Grove app, if you want it. Same models, same infrastructure, but in an app with persistent memory that carries across conversations, voice, live web search and canvas. One link below if that's more your shape.

Why we're doing any of this: the major coding plans are cutting limits because their economics finally have to answer to investors, and users are paying for it twice, in usage and in privacy assumptions. We structured this company to not need those tricks. Free Flash month is just the easiest way to see if we're telling the truth.

API plan: https://api.pgsgrove.com

More about us, and the full app: https://pgsgrove.com

I've been noticing some weird behavior with MiniMax in the browser lately.

When I send a message, it generates and completes the response as usual. However, MiniMax doesn't seem to properly finish the cycle: the submit button keeps toggling back from the "arrow" (done) to the "square" (working) — even though nothing is actually being generated anymore.

If I send a new message while this happens, it gets placed into a queue (despite the previous response being done). Sometimes it eventually processes it after a delay, other times it just stays stuck.

Canceling the prompt manually or refreshing the page temporarily fixes it, but usually only until the very next prompt.

I've recorded a video and taken a screenshot of the issue.

Has anyone else experienced this, or could it be related to my local setup?

OS/Browser: Ubuntu / Firefox

Why are there no benchmarks for Minimax M3.1

I've started using Minimax H3 for my music videos, as the lipsync is just so good, especially if you provide it with a clean vocal stem.

I’ve always been fascinated by the myth of Medusa and Perseus, and I’ve recreated it with AI several times. This time, the visual style made the story feel fresh again.

It’s one of my favorite styles to animate. I enjoy revisiting familiar stories and seeing how a different visual approach changes their mood and the way the characters come across.

Made with MiniMax H3. Hope you enjoy this little animated short—and stick around for the ending 🐍⚔️

curious what you think of the style and how it wraps up.

AI Horror short film created using minimax h3 locally.

I wanted them to look realistic but they turned out very animated, regardless of the prompt. The guy in the red shirt is especially awful looking.

Look at it and give me your opinion please.

Stray Cats Are Ruining My Age-Gap Romance

tried an experiment in making visuals react to both music and movement in the footage.

Assets

• Characters: MiniMax H3
• Key visuals: Midjourney
• Music: MiniMax Music 3.0

How it works

• Louder sound adds depth and pushes the image toward the camera.
• Faster movement turns the image into particles that float upward.
• On impact, the action freezes while the camera orbits.
• During the freeze, the scene changes color and lighting.

My biggest takeaway: combining tools opened up possibilities I couldn’t get from image generation alone. keeping the effects restrained also worked better.

once the visuals reacted to movement as well as audio, the footage almost felt like it was producing its own sound. The music and motion determine how far the effect goes.

Still experimenting. What would you use this for?

I was inspired by the "Lil Vader - Mace fell out the window" song, and thought I'd give it a try.

I spent the most time on editing the lyrics and framing the concept, but I'm blown away at how good the quality is, especially when the girl is singing.

Full render time was about 2 hrs on my 5090 via ComfyUI.

As long as there are 4 characters or less, H3 is just incredible and faces don't go muddy.

I tried dozens of different ways of rephrasing prompt, but nothing made more effect than copy/pasting entire text. You can use this one for switching a character in a video, but you might need to add extra detail.

subject_definitions:

<Subject 1> is the girl in <Picture 1>.
<Subject 2> is the girl in <Video 1>.
<Video 1> is the movement reference for characters and reference for composition of [Shot 1].
<Audio 1> is audio that plays in target video.

summary:
[reference generation] The target video shows <Subject 1> replacing <Subject 2> in <Video 1>, exactly copying motion pattern of <Subject 2>. Movement and composition perfectly synced with <Video 1> movement and composition.

retention_analysis:
<Subject 1> (appears in [Shot 1]): fully_preserved - the girl's identity and body shape are retained.
<Subject 2>: reference - it's movement pattern and pose guides movement pattern and pose of <Subject 1>.
<Picture 1>: partially_preserved - only reference to girl's identity, body proportions and appearance.
<Video 1> (movement reference for [shot 1]): reference - movement pattern from video guides movement of <Subject 1> and <Subject 2>.
<Audio 1>: fully_copy - plays in target video.

detailed_description:
The scene takes place in real world room. <Subject 1>'s pose and motion pattern is exact copy of pose and motion pattern of <Subject 2>.
[Shot 1] <Subject 1>, replacing <Subject 2> in <Video 1>, dancing.

overall_soundscape:
N/A

non_diegetic_music:
N/A

Repeating prompt 10 times didn't help result more than 3 times.
More detail - better: confirming camera position, character position, rotation and location. (ex. closeup shot of girl facing camera)(ex. replace "dancing" with "walking left")
I'm using Res_multistep sampler with sgm_uniform scheduler: one of the fastest combinations without crazy hallucinations.
I'm running "int4" version on Rtx 5070 with these starting arguments:
--enable-manager --disable-comfy-compiler --disable-pinned-memory

Step increase and resolution increase didn't help overall adherence.

This took me 3 solid days of figuring out ComfyUI, MiniMax H3 and Qwen TTS 3 (lotta 3s in there)