Vercel AI Updates: August 31, 2026

1. MiniMax H3 and H3 Max Video Models Are 50% Off on AI Gateway

Vercel. Vercel added MiniMax’s H3 and H3 Max video generation models to AI Gateway and is offering both at 50% off from August 30 through September 13, with the discounted rate applied automatically and no code changes required. H3 generates 2K video from a text prompt, a starting image, a pair of first and last frames, or reference images, video, and audio, while H3 Max runs at 480p and 768p for faster rendering from text prompts or starting images. Developers can call the minimax/minimax-h3 and minimax/minimax-h3-max identifiers using API keys from the AI Gateway dashboard or test clips in the model playground, with generation handled asynchronously through polling or webhooks. Source