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Generates high-definition video clips (720p or 1080p, 6 or 10 seconds) from text prompts or image inputs. Delivers near-photorealistic lighting, shadow transitions, and color tones with cinematic camera movements.
Creating product demo videos from a single product image with natural camera panning and professional lighting.
Advanced physics understanding produces fluid, natural character body movements. Micro-expression rendering creates compelling live-action facial performances with subtle emotional changes.
Generating marketing videos with realistic human presenters showing natural facial expressions and body language.
Supports photorealistic, anime, illustration, ink wash painting, and game CG art styles from a single general model — no style-specific model switching required.
Creating an anime-style promotional video for a game launch without needing separate specialized tools.
AI agent that automatically matches the right multimodal models for one-click video production. Input scene descriptions, color tones, camera styles, and music preferences, and the agent handles the entire creation pipeline.
Non-technical marketing teams creating complete branded video content by describing what they want in natural language.
MiniMax Speech 2.6 provides real-time voice synthesis with intelligent text parsing and LoRA-based voice cloning for consistent character voices across content.
Adding natural voiceover to generated videos with a cloned brand voice for consistent content across campaigns.
Full API access to all MiniMax models for developers and enterprise clients. Supports text, video, speech, image, and music generation with token-based pricing.
Integrating AI video generation into an e-commerce platform to automatically create product showcase videos from listings.
Hailuo AI is MiniMax's flagship AI video generation product. MiniMax is the parent company that develops the underlying models (Video-01, Hailuo 2.3) and also offers text, speech, image, and music AI products. Hailuo AI is the consumer-facing video platform, while the MiniMax Open Platform provides API access for developers.
Hailuo 2.3 generates videos at 720p or 1080p resolution at 25fps, in 6 or 10 second durations. Both text-to-video and image-to-video inputs are supported.
Yes. The MiniMax Open Platform provides API access to all models including video generation, text, speech, image, and music. Pricing is token/credit-based with developer-focused token plans available.
MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 competes directly with Runway Gen-3 and OpenAI Sora on video quality. It excels at realistic human motion and micro-expressions, and offers competitive pricing with a free tier. Runway has a more mature English-language ecosystem, while Sora offers longer generation but at higher cost.
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Tutorial updated March 2026