A reference image with a red circle drawn on it beside a long paragraph of prompt text, the circle clearly winning

A Red Circle Beats a Paragraph: People Are Directing AI Models by Drawing on the Input

Two separate finds landed today that work the same way. Draw a red circle on a reference image and the video happens there. Put a red dot where you want the eyes to look and they look there. Our own best result last week was the same idea in a different channel, and it explains why so much prompt wording does nothing.

September 9, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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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.

September 8, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
A single consumer graphics card driving a video model that produces both picture and sound

MiniMax H3 on One Gaming Card: Five Findings From a Day of Tests

We ran MiniMax H3 for a full day on a single RTX 5090: talking shots driven by our own voice track, a walk and talk, text to speech, a trained voice, and an eight scene short film with its own soundtrack. Every number here came off our machine. So did the mistakes.

September 5, 2026 · 7 min · Aillex / DIY AI
A single model repository at the centre with hundreds of community forks and variants radiating outward across a dark grid

Five Weeks, 400 Repositories: What Happens When Everyone Gets the Weights

Hugging Face says MiniMax H3 went up on 28 July. Five weeks later there are around 400 repositories with its name on them, new ones arriving at eight to twenty-four a day, and this week the community visibly stopped asking whether it runs and started asking how fast. Here is what that pace actually looks like, and why our own pipeline is not moving anywhere near that quickly.

September 1, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
A video model running on a small graphics card while a gate marked with an application form stands between it and commercial use

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.

August 30, 2026 · 5 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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