HeyGen Launches Video 1.0: First General-Purpose Model Rises to #3 on Design Arena Leaderboards

HeyGen releases HeyGen Video 1.0, its first general-purpose video model built on MiniMax H3 and post-trained by the company, debuting at #3 on Design Arena's Video and Image-to-Video leaderboards with strong momentum in the competitive video-generation market. The model, released September 30, 2026, generates 5- to 15-second clips with integrated dialogue, ambience, and sound effects in a single call, with no separate speech, lip-sync, or avatar selection required. It supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video workflows across resolutions from 480p to 2K, running inference in 3.7 seconds—faster than MiniMax H3 Max's 8.3 seconds.