Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7
Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model's coding capability approaches …
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Discussion
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@minimax_ai
@minimax_ai
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Introducing MiniMax M3: The First Open-Weights Model to Combine Three Frontier Capabilities - Coding & Agentic Frontier: 59.0% SWE-Bench Pro, 66.0% Terminal Bench 2.1, 34.8% SWE-fficiency, 28.8% KernelBench Hard, 74.2% MCP Atlas - MiniMax Sparse Attention scales context to 1M - […
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@novita_labs
@novita_labs
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🚀 We're launching MiniMax M3 from @MiniMax_AI on Novita AI as a Day-0 API launch partner. The first open-weights model to combine: • Frontier coding and agent capabilities 59.0% SWE-Bench Pro, 66.0% Terminal Bench 2.1, 74.2% MCP Atlas • Up to 1M tokens of context Enabled by [vide…
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@skylermiao7
Skyler Miao
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Several sleepless nights later, M3 is finally here. Coding frontier. 1M context. Native multimodal input. The first open-weights model to bring all three together. Hope you all like it 😎 p.s. M3 has already submitted a lot of PRs into MiniMax Code.
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@tphuang
@tphuang
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I do appreciate it when Chinese AI players compare themselves to the big 3 rather than each other, since it gives better indication of where they are performance wise. Minimax does focus on coding, work & agentic flow. That's where money is. They don't pretend to do LLMs that
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@arena
@arena
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New open model: MiniMax M3 by @MiniMax_AI is live in the Arena! Find it across Text, Vision, Document and Code Arena: Frontend. Bring your toughest prompts and vote. Scores incoming soon! [image]
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@askvenice
Venice
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MiniMax-M3 by @MiniMax_AI is now live on Venice. The first open-weight model to deliver frontier coding and agentic performance with native multimodality. Built for long-horizon, complex workflows. Available anonymously.
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@minimax_ai
@minimax_ai
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🔥API Pricing & Promotion - 50% off standard usage (≤512K context) during the first 7 days - Priority access available through: api@minimax.io - Self-serve access for all users coming in the next few days [image]
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@yacinemtb
Kache
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There's going to be a point where intelligence saturates meaningfully to be useful for humans, in which case open source will catch up to the closed frontier. Then, the battles will be fought elsewhere. Serving cost mostly probably?
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@ollama
@ollama
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.@MiniMax_AI M3 model is available on Ollama's Cloud! In partnership with MiniMax, the M3 model on Ollama's Cloud is US-based with zero data retention. Try M3 on coding and agentic tasks: Claude Code: ollama launch claude —model minimax-m3:cloud Codex: ollama launch
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@openrouter
@openrouter
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MiniMax-M3 is live on OpenRouter! A frontier-class open-weight model that combines a 1M-token context window, frontier coding and agentic performance, and native multimodality (image & video) in one model. [image]
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@arafatkatze
Ara
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Minimax Team has texted us at - 8 PM on a Sunday - 11 AM on a Wednesday I genuinely do not know which timezone these people they work in and that's how I know they will succeed. Kudos for the Minimax 3 release
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@jun_song
Jun Song
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Minimax M3 officially launched. Let's go🚀🚀
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@eliebakouch
Elie
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> Weights & Tech Report in ~10 Days me: [image]
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@teknium
@teknium
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Minimax M3 is now live in Hermes Agent on Nous Portal, OpenRouter, and Minimax Direct Providers! No need to hermes update, it should appear in your model picker automatically! [image]
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@ryanleeminimax
RyanLee
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MiniMax-M3 will by arrive on HuggingFace openweight at next week! [image]
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@rezaul_arif
Arif
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MiniMax M3 scores 90.3% GPT 5.5 Scores 92.4% Just a 2.1% gap now at @convex. Incredible to see the open-source models closing in. The future of AI is open. 🤖💪 [image]