Licensing

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We Got the MiniMax H3 Licence Wrong. So We Applied for It, and Three Days Later We Had Permission.

On 30 August we told you the licence was a gate rather than a ban. That was not right, and the version we corrected away from was closer to the truth. Here is what the licence actually says, what applying took, and the one clause that should stop a lot of people in this hobby cold.

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Radar, 30 August: Everyone Is Racing to Run MiniMax H3 on Small Cards. Almost Nobody Is Reading the Licence

Our radar pulled 240 items and the video half was almost entirely one model. Three separate projects landed in a day to squeeze MiniMax H3 onto consumer GPUs, and every one of them is impressive. The thing none of the posts mention is that the licence puts an application form in front of anyone in the US, EU, UK or South Korea.

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