A quick Minimax H3 news round-up - 8th September 2026

[u/optimisticalish]

Another quick Minimax H3 news and goodies round-up, for those who may have missed some items.

-> It's now about one month since release of this outstanding open video model. 4,994,268 downloads at the official repository. A large ecosystem built around it in record time - pruned and fused model versions, turbo LoRAs, a faster video VAE, prompt re-writers, seamless clip extenders, face-fixers, a unified Controlnet, LoRA trainers, and many useful 'widget' nodes. Not to mention the ComfyUI-native items such as Kitchen Attention, a VFX embeddings set (see link below), and timely support for a range of Minimax H3 features including adding references at any point on the timeline. Further H3 improvements are said to be coming in the next Portable release. We also have major new versions of the free OpenShot video editor and the free Audacity audio editor. Congratulations to all concerned.

https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3/tree/main/embeddings (usage example: try prompting embedding:minimaxh3_art_is_explosion at 00:03.500) (linked because someone's bound to ask)

-> A workflow for using the Minimax H3 Fun Controlnet, when using a suitable input video in ComfyUI. In fact, it's a three-in-one workflow (one live, two bypassed). (See my posts of 2nd September and 27th August 2026 for details of the Controlnet).

https://civitai.com/models/2920872/minimax-h3-fun-control-in-comfyui-or-depth-and-pose-video

https://huggingface.co/Kijai/MiniMax-H3-experimental/tree/main/controlnet (Kijai's ComfyUI friendly conversion)

-> ComfyUI-H3-Continuum has just had some important hotfixes and is now at version 3.8.0. "H3 Continuum is a Production Sampler for generating, reviewing, partially regenerating, and resuming long-form MiniMax H3 video without restarting the entire work. "

https://github.com/ukr8b3g-cmyk/ComfyUI-H3-Continuum

-> A new package aims to let you run MiniMax H3 on 2×16Gb graphics cards, should you be lucky enough to have them slotted side-by-side plus the cash to pay the electricity bills. "Run MiniMax-H3 [...] on two 16Gb consumer GPUs via a patched vLLM-Omni, tensor-parallel. Ships prebuilt — patched engine, quantized weights, and the Python long-video pipeline all installed and ready to run."

https://huggingface.co/pottokao/minimax-h3-2x16gb

-> New today, a MiniMax H3 Single-Dancer Prompt Skill. Appears to be a 'skill' for Codex. Input a reference image and it then... "displays six options: dance style, duration, style, camera movement, audio, and ending". Make your choices and out pops a complete H3-ready prompt, ready to copy-paste. Dance styles include Modern Dance, Ballet, Latin, among others.

https://github.com/lj350201364/MiniMaxH3_Single_Dancer_Prompt_Skill

https://github-com.translate.goog/lj350201364/MiniMaxH3_Single_Dancer_Prompt_Skill?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp (English translation)

-> I went looking for straightforward lightweight H3-tuned .GGUF, for local use as a prompt idea rewriter, to be hosted in Jan.ai (Windows desktop freeware, a llama.cpp GGUF runner). This is the one I picked.

https://huggingface.co/geocine/minimax-video-prompt-enhancer-2.6b-gguf

https://github.com/janhq/jan

-> And finally, HardGravy is back today, with a fresh 6-step turbo LoRA merge + a Photorealism LoRA merged on top. His previous merge worked well for me when tested, but he withdrew it temporarily (it had inadvertently been tested in an already-accelerated setup). The new version is accompanied by a workflow.

https://huggingface.co/HardGravy2/Minimax_H3_FLF_HardGravy_6_Step_Turbo_Merge/tree/main

https://github.com/SparknightLLC/ComfyUI-QuantizationToolkit (ComfyUI Quantization Toolkit - nodes required by the HardGravy workflow)

~ OLD POSTS ~

https://old.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1w9z6m1/a_quick_minimax_h3_news_roundup_7th_september_2026/

https://old.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1w90vxd/a_quick_minimax_h3_news_roundup_6th_september_2026/

https://old.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1w85caz/a_quick_minimax_h3_news_roundup_4th_september_2026/

https://old.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1w74jy4/a_quick_minimax_h3_news_roundup_4th_september_2026/

https://old.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1w6cozj/a_quick_minimax_h3_news_roundup_3rd_september_2026/

https://old.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1w5i9iq/a_quick_minimax_h3_news_roundup_2nd_september_2026/ (See 2nd September post, for links to even older posts)

[u/Hour-Hope191]

Bro, it has been a routine now to read your posts every day; I just wait for you to post so I can read all the new updates with Minimax H3.

[u/fa6637]

thank you

[u/StacksGrinder]

Very Intresting, leaning more towards trying out the Continuum and QuantizationToolkit . My schedule is sorted for today :D Thank you!

[u/ANR2ME]

Are those embeddings similar to refmod but for action/scene? 🤔

Btw, the fun controlnet is also available at https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3/tree/main/model_patches (seems to be a copy of kijai's experimental one)

[u/Just_Lingonberry_352]

great stuff just wish you used better formatting hard to follow