MiniMax drops open-weights model crafting 5-minute songs
MiniMax just launched Music 3.0, an open-weights AI model that generates complete songs up to five minutes long in a single pass. Powered by a hybrid architecture based on Qwen3.5-8B alongside flow matching, it preserves long-range song structure while capturing realistic instrument dynamics. Why it matters: It brings fully produced, extended AI tracks into the open-source fold without sacrificing acoustic fidelity.