Mô hình mở nguồn MiniMax H3 thêm các hạn chế theo khu vực, một số người dùng tại Hoa Kỳ, EU, Anh và Hàn Quốc cần được cấp phép

The Huoxing Finance report states that on August 3, MiniMax, a domestic AI company, introduced regional restrictions into the license of its newly open-sourced video generation model, H3, drawing market attention. Ryan Lee, Head of Developer Relations at MiniMax, stated that due to ongoing litigation with multiple Hollywood studios regarding copyright of generated videos, regional restrictions were added to the H3 license. According to the H3 license, its scope applies to "globally, excluding the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, and South Korea." Individuals and institutions in the aforementioned regions are default prohibited from using, modifying, deploying, or distributing H3 under the public license, and cannot directly use the model to generate content without obtaining separate authorization from MiniMax. This incident is regarded as a shift in the licensing model for open-source models. Previously, open-source models typically meant that once the code or model weights were made public, developers worldwide could freely use them; however, H3 attempts to maintain open weights while implementing different usage rules based on jurisdictional regions. Industry insiders suggest that future open-source AI models may adopt a "regional licensing" model, where the same model could be subject to different compliance requirements across countries and regions.