MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption
MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model. The model takes two separate inputs: lyrics carrying section tags, and a detailed music description. It returns a complete song of up to five minutes in a single generation, as 32 kHz, 16-bit stereo WAV. The architecture pairs a Hybrid-LM, an 8B Global LLM with a 0.6B Local LLM, with a continuous synthesis stack built on flow matching and a Flow-VAE. Weights, inference code and three documented serving paths shipped the same
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MiniMax released an open-weights music generation model that creates complete songs up to five minutes long from two inputs: song lyrics with section tags and a structured music description. The model uses a hybrid architecture combining language models with flow matching and synthesis technology to produce high-quality stereo audio. The release includes usable weights, inference code, and three documented deployment paths, making it immediately available for commercial use by solo creators and mid-market teams, subject to attribution requirements and revenue thresholds specified in the license.
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