ARENA PICK: the shortlist is here. 22 films. 22 distinct voices from ARENA PEAK ASIA. Meet the nominated works and their creators in the thread below. Seven winners will be revealed soon.

A huge thank-you to every creator who transformed the idea, “What if a time machine were really launched?” into an amazing video! ✨ From imaginative visions of the future and moving stories to advertisements that made the impossible feel real, your entries introduced us to countless unique and creative versions of the future. After careful review by our judging panel, we are delighted to announce the winners! 🥇 Gold Prize🏆 USD 2,000 + 50,000 AZ8 Credits@wakawakkachan 🥈 Silver Prizes — 3 Winners🏆 USD 1,000 + 50,000 AZ8 Credits each@user_monom @kuriyama890 @apilpirman 🏅 Excellence Awards — 10 Winners🏆 50,000 AZ8 Credits each@karyabangjumawa @os_shim @test_your_worth @yachimat_manga @Kashiko_AIart @PIZURI_DSKB @SSSS_CRYPTOMAN @tamanoko186313 @echadoings @HH56099005 Once again, we sincerely thank every creator who participated, and congratulations to all our winners! 👏✨ Every entry presented a different vision and story of the future, showing us even more possibilities for AI video creation. To those who were not selected this time, your work was still a valuable and wonderful part of this competition. We look forward to seeing you continue bringing your ideas to life and creating new stories with AZ8! 🩷

MiniMax x Chroma Awards is LIVE! We’re excited to partner with @chromaawards for Season 2! 💰 Explore $1M+ in promotions and compete for $450K+ in cash prizes. 💰 Win an extra $2250 cash prize from us by tagging MiniMax in your submission and posting on social media with #MiniMaxH3#. 📅 Submissions are now open until January 7th!⬇

Bestiary: Miora × MiniMax H3 Creative Contest is now open.👻 #MioraDesign# #MioraBuddy# #TencentAI# #MiniMaxH3# #MiniMax# One track, deliberately wide open: strange-creature narrative shorts. Mythology, folklore, urban legends, or a world entirely your own. 💰Prizes: · $8,000 USD in cash · 200,000 creation credits on @Miora_Design · 1st / 2nd / 3rd + 10 Popularity Awards

One week left in the ComfyUI x @MiniMax_AI Community Challenge. Four ways to win an RTX 5090 or RTX 5060 Ti. Fully virtual and open to everyone - local rig or Comfy Cloud. 9/1 — submissions close @ 9pm PST 9/2 — livestream with guest judges and winner announcements Share on your socials (X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok) tagging @ComfyUI @MiniMax_AI #ComfyH3# so we can reshare our favorites! Submit your video below 👇

Last week, my friend @BernieSu (3x Emmy winner) invited me to his private screening, my first time experiencing immersive film. It’s an unprecedented format & the frontier of what’s possible when AI + creativity come together. I kept saying the commercial and creative space this could unlock is enormous. But the bottleneck was still latency. Their solution then was game-engine rendering. Just one week later, @fal launched MiniMax H3-Max, pushing generation speed to a completely whole new level. And today @levelsio put that capability straight into a 24/7 AI livestream product. It takes great taste and judgment to see what’s possible, and the conviction &execution to actually make it happen. We’re thrilled to be part of this, collaborating with good friends and partners to build entirely new product paradigms. What a time to live! amaze amaze amaze!!🪄🧗🏻‍♀️

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.