MiniMax put a production-grade music model on Hugging Face with the weights attached. Music3 splits the job across two language models: an 8B global LLM, initialized from Qwen3-8B, handles long-range song structure — where the chorus lands, how the arrangement builds — while a 0.6B local model fills in frame-level acoustic detail. Their fused hidden states feed a 2.4B flow-matching module and a Flow-VAE decoder that renders 32 kHz 16-bit stereo WAV, up to five minutes a track. You write lyrics with section tags — [verse], [chorus], [bridge] — and steer everything else through structured captions covering genre, mood, instrumentation, and vocal performance down to timbre, breathiness, and falsetto. The timing is not subtle. A week earlier Suno announced download caps taking effect September 3: 20 songs a month on Pro at $8–10, 60 on Premier at $24–30, and seven downloads total — lifetime — for free users. Suno's stated reasons are curbing mass-export abuse and meeting EU AI Act transparency rules. But for anyone scoring a film, the download is the product; a cap on exports is a cap on the work. Music3 arrives as the answer to a question Suno had just made urgent, and it's the second open-weight model in three days to make a pitch out of what the closed platforms won't give you, after LTX-2.5 on the video side. The license is the interesting part, because MiniMax appears to have learned something from MiniMax-H3 eleven days earlier — the open-weight video model whose grant excluded the US, EU, UK, and Korea. Music3's community license has no territorial carve-out at all. It's free worldwide, with two conditions: display "MiniMax-Music3" in the UI of any commercial product built on it, and get written authorization above $20M in yearly revenue. The mandatory-branding requirement is exactly the string LTX had spent the week attacking in its comparison tables, so nobody's hands are entirely clean. Practically, the full repo is 57.4 GB and MiniMax's own reference inference wants two CUDA GPUs; what brings it to a single consumer card is ComfyUI's day-one support in 0.33.0, which ships an INT8 quantized transformer, a pruned INT8 text encoder, and tiled decoding for long songs.