# MiniMax Music 3.0: Next-Generation Open-Weights, Production-Ready & Versatile Music Model - MiniMax Research

The model composes, arranges, performs, and produces a complete song of up to five minutes in a single generation.

- An 8B global LLM initialized from Qwen3.5-8B and a 0.6B local LLM jointly model song structure and acoustic detail.
- Structured Captions describe emotion, instrumentation, and vocal delivery at section level; a Prompt Enhancement System expands simple user prompts.
- Audio is rendered by fusing hidden states from both LLMs into a 2.4B flow-matching module and a 123M Flow-VAE.
- Lyrics can include section tags such as [intro], [verse], [chorus], and [bridge] to define the song's macrostructure.

## Why it matters

Music creators can now generate complete, production-ready songs up to five minutes from a simple prompt, with coherent structure and natural vocals.

## Sources

- [MiniMax: MiniMax Music 3.0: Next-Generation Open-Weights, Production-Ready & Versatile Music Model - MiniMax Research](https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-08-13. https://dstilled.ai/story/892037d4-df0f-4791-a20c-b1eb202911a7