---
license: other
license_name: minimax-music3-community
license_link: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3
base_model: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3
library_name: mlx
pipeline_tag: text-to-audio
tags:
  - mlx
  - apple-silicon
  - music-generation
  - minimax
---

# MiniMax Music 3 — MLX

Converted [MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3) weights for Apple Silicon via [mikolaj92/minimax-music3-mlx](https://github.com/mikolaj92/minimax-music3-mlx).

This is a layout remap (PyTorch conv kernels → MLX, weight-norm fused, bf16). It is not a fine-tune.

All variants: [MiniMax Music 3 MLX collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/mikoy92/minimax-music-3-mlx-6a7eb2a8e09d246e6d029fad)

| Precision | Repo | Size |
|---|---|---|
| bf16 | [mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX](https://huggingface.co/mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX) | ~23.5 GB |
| 8-bit | [mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX-8bit](https://huggingface.co/mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX-8bit) | ~12 GB |
| 6-bit | [mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX-6bit](https://huggingface.co/mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX-6bit) | ~10 GB |
| 4-bit | [mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX-4bit](https://huggingface.co/mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX-4bit) | ~7 GB |

## Use

```bash
git clone https://github.com/mikolaj92/minimax-music3-mlx
cd minimax-music3-mlx
uv venv --python 3.12 .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e .

hf download mikoy92/MiniMax-Music3-MLX --local-dir ./weights/mlx

python -m minimax_music3_mlx.generate \
  --weights ./weights/mlx \
  --lyrics $'[verse]\n...\n[chorus]\n...' \
  --prompt "Genre: acoustic pop. BPM: 96. Warm female vocal." \
  --duration 30 \
  --steps 30 \
  --output song.wav
```

## License

Weights remain under the [MiniMax-Music3 Community License](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3) (Copyright 2026 MiniMax). Inference code in the GitHub repo is Apache-2.0.

Commercial products that ship the model must display “MiniMax-Music3”. Yearly revenue above USD 20M needs a separate MiniMax authorization (`api@minimax.io`).