MiniMax releases MiniMax Music 3 weights — track generator up to 5...

MiniMax releases MiniMax Music 3 weights — track generator up to 5 minutes

Chinese company MiniMax has released the weights of the MiniMax Music 3 model under the Apache 2.0 license, capable of generating full musical tracks up to 5 minutes long with vocals, lyrics, and arrangement.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-08-14Updated 2026-09-18

2026-08-14 Multimodal HuggingFace

🎵 MiniMax releases MiniMax Music 3 weights

Chinese MiniMax has published the MiniMax Music 3 weights under Apache 2.0 — a track generator up to 5 minutes long with vocals, lyrics, and arrangement. Hybrid architecture: 8B Global LLM (Qwen3-8B) + 0.6B Local LLM, synthesis via Flow Matching. Works on GPUs from 8 GB with streaming, integrations in ComfyUI and diffusers.

🌍 First open-source music generator on par with Suno and Udio — MiniMax expands its open model strategy after H3.

👤 Local launch on 8+ GB GPU, integration via ComfyUI or API on platform.minimax.io.

Source 1: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model Source 2: https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-Music3

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