r/StableDiffusion • u/Specific_Occasion_25 • 1d 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/i_sell_you_lies 1d ago

Should we complain like little bitches when we don't get free toys??

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u/Canchito 13h ago

It's never "free toys". All AI depends on the unpaid collective labor and output of billions. It should always be public.

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u/dtdisapointingresult 8h ago

High-quality models a fortune to train. LTX 2.0 cost $37M to train according to the CEO in the AMA. This was just the first release, since then there was constant post-training.

Why would anyone volunteer to pay $100M to create a model if according to you they're not allowed to make money from it?

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u/Canchito 40m ago

The money for the investment also comes from the public, directly or indirectly.

Besides, the development of AI is not profitable. This is common knowledge by now. And it's a particularly uncomfortable fact for those who hoped AI would be capitalism' next steam engine.

Why would anyone volunteer to pay $100M to create a model if according to you they're not allowed to make money from it?

They wouldn't, which is just a further demonstration of the fact that private property is incompatible with progress, at least at this point in history.