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2026-09-08 VIDEO

I Self-Hosted MiniMax H3 on an L40S: What Is Actually Open

MiniMax H3 runs on a 48 GB L40S with INT8 weights, but H3-Base is only the middle stage. Here is what worked, what failed, what it cost, and when self-hosting wins.

2026-08-15 AI

Seedance 2.5 Hands-On: 725 Credits Buy 27 Seconds, and the CLI Costs Extra

A ¥69/month membership buys 725 credits — enough for 27 seconds of finished video, about ¥2.5 per second. The Dreamina CLI needs the ¥998/month premium tier, which is where my agent-driven pipeline stopped. Three blockers, one cost calculation done on what I actually paid, and four things wrong with the subtitles.

2024-10-08 TOOLS

How to Build an AI Video Course Generator with Python

Turn PowerPoint slides into narrated video courses using LLMs, text-to-speech, and FFmpeg — fully automated, with the pipeline costs measured.