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MiniMax AI launches M3 with 1M context, multimodal, and coding

MiniMax AI has released a new open-weights model, M3, that boasts frontier coding capabilities, a 1 million token context window, and native multimodal features. The company is offering a 50% discount on the first week of access to the model via SiliconFlow. AI

IMPACT Sets new SOTA on coding benchmarks and multimodal tasks, potentially influencing future model development.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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MiniMax AI launches M3 with 1M context, multimodal, and coding

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  1. X — MiniMax AI TIER_1 English(EN) · MiniMax_AI ·

    Day-0 on SiliconFlow and 50% off 🔥 the first week

    Day-0 on SiliconFlow and 50% off 🔥 the first week frontier coding, 1M context, and native multimodal, all in one open-weights model. This is what we built M3 for. Go try it 👇