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MiniMax M3.1 Flash model weights quantized to 93 GB by community

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Community builders have successfully quantized the MiniMax M3.1 Flash model, reducing its open weights from 252.4 GB to as low as 93 GB. This effort, which MiniMax publicly acknowledged and thanked the contributors for, involved various quantization techniques and hardware setups. The M3.1 Flash model is designed for coding and agent tasks, supports multimodal input, and can handle up to a 1 million token context window, provided sufficient hardware resources. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates community-driven optimization techniques for large models, potentially lowering hardware barriers for deployment.

RANK_REASON Community-driven optimization of an existing model's weights, rather than a new release or benchmark.

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash model weights quantized to 93 GB by community

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Dependent-Bid1391 ·

    Builders got MiniMax M3.1 Flash's open weights from 252.4 GB down to 93 GB in 10 days, and the lab thanked them by name

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2116996123164569606">MiniMax posted a thank-you yesterday</a> for everyone quantizing M3.1 Flash (428B, 252.4 GB), and I went through the ones they named. Numbers are each builder's, separate eval sets, no…

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