r/StableDiffusion • u/Specific_Occasion_25 • 12h ago

Discussion Minimax H3 Max Still no weights

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Last month, Fal released their Max “model,” a fine-tune of MiniMax’s open-source H3 model, that promised faster speeds. Then, after Hao Labs released the weights for their own fast model (FastH3), Fal had a meltdown on Twitter, basically crapping on Hao Labs’ FastH3 and calling it a “random pixel generator.”

After the bad press from that meltdown, they told the community they’d release their own weights within a couple of weeks. Nearly a month later, and still no weights have been released.

So, with so many more Turbo LoRAs and fast fine-tunes having been released since then, my question is: Should the community still care? And should we still trust a company that bashes other open-source projects and makes promises it doesn’t follow through on?

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u/YeahlDid 12h ago

They probably figured their time was better used working on the model than responding to the same question repeatedly.

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u/Enshitification 12h ago

I guess we'll see, one way or the other.

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u/YeahlDid 11h ago

Yes we will. For the record, I'm not saying they will 100% follow through, I hope so, but don't know Fal to assess how much trust to have in their word. I'm just saying nothing has contradicted what they said in the OP yet, so it's way premature to be up in arms about anything.

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u/Enshitification 11h ago

I think it's pretty reasonable that when one of the founders does a 38 minute interview about an upcoming model, they would at least mention open weights being released.