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title: "MiniMax releases open-weights AI model for full 5-minute songs"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/minimax-releases-open-weights-ai-model-for-full-5-minute-songs-d5ea4b
source_name: "MarkTechPost"
source_url: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/17/minimax-releases-minimax-music3/
published: 2026-08-17T18:36:40.000Z
topics: ["open source", "products"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# MiniMax releases open-weights AI model for full 5-minute songs

*2026-08-17 · Source: [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/17/minimax-releases-minimax-music3/)*

MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model. Given lyrics with section tags and a structured caption, it generates a complete song up to five minutes long in a single pass, output as 32kHz, 16-bit stereo WAV.

**Why it matters:** Most music-generation tools top out around one or two minutes, or stitch multiple passes together; a single-pass five-minute output with open weights lowers the bar for developers to build music tools without licensing a closed API like Suno or Udio. Open-weights releases have been rarer in music generation than in text or image models, so this adds real competitive pressure in that niche.

**Topics:** open source, products

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