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AI Signals Report

AI Signals Report — Capability Is Cheap. Answering For It Isn't.

Three battles defined this week in AI, and none of them was won on capability. The model race became a price war, the best open video model turned out to have a map in its license, and since 2 August, marking synthetic content is EU law.

AI Signals Report

I tested MiniMax H3 against my own Wan pipeline. The model won. Then I read the license.

MiniMax H3 does in one pass what my Wan pipeline needed twenty stitched clips to fake. But the open weights aren't the hosted system, and the Community License excludes the EU, UK, US and Korea — turning "can we run it?" from an infrastructure question into a jurisdictional one.