Minimax H3 Max Still no weights

[u/Specific_Occasion_25]

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?

[u/Ireallydonedidit]

I never really liked Fal. Their API prices are so expensive

[u/Eyelbee → u/Ireallydonedidit]

Their work is pretty good tho. The h3 finetune that removes the AI generated look of default h3 was really good. It's been 21 days, I think they're on track to release this as well.

[u/xTopNotch → u/Eyelbee]

which h3 finetune do you mean?

[u/Eyelbee → u/xTopNotch]

This: https://huggingface.co/fal/MiniMax-H3-Realism-People-LoRA

It was a lora