Pending benchmarksTracking since Oct 20, 2026
Is FastH3 Omni state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 20, 2026; no independent results yet.
Hao AI Lab's FastVideo team's 8-step reference-to-video model, distilled from MiniMax's MiniMax-H3: video with synchronized audio from a text prompt plus image, video and audio references, which the lab says runs in real time. Open weights under the MiniMax-H3 Community License, with training code, NVFP4 / FP8 variants and day-0 ComfyUI support.
Announced facts
The details so far
- Lab
- Hao AI Lab (UC San Diego)
- Announced
- Oct 20, 2026
- API
- Not yet
- Open weights
- Published
- Lab
- Hao AI Lab at UC San Diego (FastVideo), with NVIDIA, Nuva Lab and Reactor
- Base model
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 (distilled derivative; not a MiniMax release)
- Sampling
- 8 transformer evaluations, guidance 1.0
- Inputs
- Text prompt plus up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips (12 references max; at least one image or video)
- Output
- Video at 24 FPS with synchronized 32 kHz stereo audio
- Weights
- Hugging Face (FastVideo): BF16 release, NVFP4 QAD and FP8 variants, NVFP4 VAE decoders, ComfyUI packages
- License
- MiniMax-H3 Community License Agreement (card license: other)
- Runtimes
- UniServe for GB200 / B200 / RTX PRO 6000 / Hopper servers; FastVideo for DGX Spark and RTX 5090
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
Next steps
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
Self-reported
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: real-time generation, 12× faster on NVIDIA Blackwell.
Receipts
Sources
LABHao AI Lab announcement on Xx.com/haoailab/status/2112625528805208257 · Oct 20, 2026REPOFastVideo-FastH3-Omni-8-Step-V1 on Hugging Facehuggingface.co/FastVideo/FastVideo-FastH3-Omni-8-Step-V1 · Oct 20, 2026REPOFastH3 Omni collection on Hugging Facehuggingface.co/collections/FastVideo/fasth3-omni · Oct 20, 2026PRESSHugging Face (multimodalart) post on Xx.com/multimodalart/status/2112635820611977250 · Oct 20, 2026Tracking continues until an independent board lists it.