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Jul 31, 2026

ByteDance and MiniMax release competing AI video models within hours

ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 generating 30-second video clips with native audio, while MiniMax launched H3 producing 15-second 2K clips with stereo audio. The near-simultaneous releases underscore China's aggressive advances in AI video generation.

Jul 31, 2026·4 sources

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▪H3 trails Google's Gemini Omni Flash in text-to-video tasks and ranks behind ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni Flash in image-to-video capabilities
▪The H3 weights will be released under the MiniMax Community License, allowing free non-commercial use and commercial use for firms with under US$20 million in annual revenue
▪ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates video and audio in a single pass

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AI tools & products1 AI video generators1 China1 Generative audio1 Text to video1 Video generation models1

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