MiniMax Watch posted an update
A local test of MiniMax’s H3-Image took 547 seconds to generate a 4K image on an M5 Pro Mac mini with 64GB of memory, TokenPost reports. The test used ComfyUI and a compressed int8 version of the model.
Why it mattersMiniMax says its hosted service can do the same in under 10 seconds, but the setups differ, so this is not a like-for-like speed contest. The test also took 165 seconds for a 2K image and 90 seconds for a 1K image. One practical catch for local users: TokenPost says the model’s community licence restricts use, modification or distribution of the model and generated images in the UK, EU, US and South Korea without separate permission.
Discuss: Would you accept a much slower local image-generation workflow for control over where the work runs, or does a restriction on local use make that trade-off pointless?
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