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MiniMax releases M3, a 1-million-token multimodal model for coding agents

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Source: Hugging Face: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3Also reported by South China Morning Post

MiniMax released M3, a native multimodal model with about 428 billion parameters (23 billion active) and a 1-million-token context, five times its predecessor’s. MiniMax said its sparse attention design gives 9 times faster prefill and 15 times faster decoding than M2 at 1 million tokens, cutting per-token compute to a twentieth.

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Long-context coding agents got cheaper to run on MiniMax’s model, by the company’s own figures.

When
1 Jun 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0209
Where
China
Who
MiniMax

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Hugging Face and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2026-0209: “MiniMax releases M3, a 1-million-token multimodal model for coding agents.” wheresthe.ai, 1 Jun 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-minimax-m3-release-2026-06/ (source: Hugging Face: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3).

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